There comes a time in every relationship when throwing a little bit
of literary culture into the mix is called for.
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So, I guess it's okay for publishers and distributors to do whatever they want, break whatever commercial laws they want as long as we maintain a «
rich literary culture».
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The blog posts and tweets afterwards expressed excitement at finally finding a like - minded community in a country that still has $ 35 print book prices and a
restricted literary culture.
There are ethical issues at stake and it is an important question, not just for indies, but for the
wider literary culture.
The phenomenon of self - publishing existed at all times and, in fact, for many centuries it was an integral part
of literary culture.
If one needs an image or metaphor to describe our current
Catholic literary culture, I would say that it resembles the present state of the old immigrant urban neighborhoods our grandparents inhabited.
Eve is in Tangiers, ensconced
in literary culture alongside her friend and confidant Christopher Marlowe (yes, that Chrisopher Marlowe, played here by Hurt).
Whereas the mid-twentieth century literary scene was packed with Catholics (Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy, Jack Kerouac, Donald Westlake, Allen Tate, Robert Fitzgerald, Claude McKay, Claire Boothe Luce, Robert Giroux, Hugh Kenner), Gioia noted, today's «aggressively
secular literary culture» allows for only a few of them (Alice McDermott, Tobias Wolff, Richard Rodriguez).
Beneath her lament for the lost role of criticism and polemical take on
contemporary literary culture (such as it is), Ozick offers something quieter.
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Audiences came to laugh and be entertained, but a vibrant
literary culture also led to adaptations of Ibsen, Tolstoy, and Shaw running in Yiddish houses long before they appeared on Broadway.
Looking back on the mid-century era of O'Connor, Merton, Porter, and Tate, one could summarize the position of American Catholic
literary culture with four characteristics.
Literary agents in the US and Europe highlight Brazil's rich
literary culture by discussing how they find and sell Brazilian authors internationally.
Ozick dissents, must dissent: Artists and critics live symbiotically (whether they might ever be synonymous is the subject taken up in essays on «Monsters» — Henry James, Leo Baeck, Harold Bloom) and together
create literary culture.
A century ago, T. S. Eliot presented the image of a self -
organizing literary culture in «Tradition and the Individual Talent,» one in which «[t] he existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them,» which alters «the whole existing order... if ever so slightly.»
«The world in which [Wilson] prospered has passed into history, and what has supplanted it is a degraded, highly
politicized literary culture guaranteed to misconstrue his accomplishment and misrepresent its virtues.»
So here's my counter-thesis: The loss of a Catholic presence in
mainstream literary culture is not because we are suffering from a dearth of gifted Catholic writers but because ideological blinders have prevented religious and secular people alike from perceiving and engaging the work that is out there.
I'm skeptical that anyone would look at this list and argue that herein is a critical mass of contemporary writers that enjoy a broad and incisive and collective purchase on either
professional literary culture or general reading culture today.
The «new» words generally reflect a level of
literary culture higher than that found either in the other Pauline epistles or in the rest of the New Testament.
New writers are essential if we wish to continue to have a vital and
compelling literary culture,» said Michael Tamblyn, CEO, Rakuten Kobo.
«To work on behalf of one's fellow authors and readers is an honor, and it is work that's necessary to sustain a diverse and
vital literary culture.
They believed low cost paperbacks would
destroy literary culture and harm the industry (not to mention their own bank accounts).
In other words, where would it do the most good
since literary culture is «under threat from several directions,» and «every opportunity to come to its relief should be seized»?
It also fails to consider whether the democratisation of publishing produces a similar democratisation for the reader by
making literary culture more open.
His seeking of authenticity and creative fulfillment, from latching on to early influences like Hunter Thompson to his disappointment in the
debauched literary culture of 1980s New York, make for a melancholy but ultimately redemptive journey.
A different person might summarize the situation slightly differently, or argue with the phrasing of particular observations, but I doubt that any honest observer of
current literary culture could refute this sad summary of Catholic letters today.
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Today there are still a few writers who admit to being practicing Catholics, such as Ron Hansen, Alice McDermott, Mary Karr, Tobias Wolff, Richard Rodriguez, and Kathleen Norris, but they seem notable exceptions in an aggressively
secular literary culture.
Russia boasts of a
rich literary culture, but is also besotted with digital piracy of an unprecedented scale; that translates to substantially less cash inflow to the national exchequer every year.