yeah, i pulled my punches a bit there in the back section, because i think it's interesting to ask—who, exactly, regards these Great Authors as actually great?
my vague suspicion is that it's mostly people whose college days were in the 1970s/80s—who are certainly our high school teachers and professors now, but maybe the younger generation isn't quite so enamored with their tastes anymore, and already the new vanguard of People Into Adult Literary Fiction are getting into stuff that i would see as more recognizably fulfilling. certainly the one literature phd friend i have seems to be doing a lot of work on modern queer super-experimental authors, though i haven't talked with 'em in-depth enough to say whether it's informed by e.g. authors like Joyce, or a reaction to it, or a continuation of, or...
so yeah i dunno! certainly they're fed to you still in high school as The Greats, though, and that's a bit of a shame. if change is happening it's probably slow, sigh.
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Date: 2019-03-18 07:11 am (UTC)yeah, i pulled my punches a bit there in the back section, because i think it's interesting to ask—who, exactly, regards these Great Authors as actually great?
my vague suspicion is that it's mostly people whose college days were in the 1970s/80s—who are certainly our high school teachers and professors now, but maybe the younger generation isn't quite so enamored with their tastes anymore, and already the new vanguard of People Into Adult Literary Fiction are getting into stuff that i would see as more recognizably fulfilling. certainly the one literature phd friend i have seems to be doing a lot of work on modern queer super-experimental authors, though i haven't talked with 'em in-depth enough to say whether it's informed by e.g. authors like Joyce, or a reaction to it, or a continuation of, or...
so yeah i dunno! certainly they're fed to you still in high school as The Greats, though, and that's a bit of a shame. if change is happening it's probably slow, sigh.