[Dixielandjazz] A New Thread for the DJML to fight over

Stephen G Barbone barbonestreet at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 21 16:14:31 PST 2008



His 1967 essay "The Literature of Exhaustion" made the powerful case  
that writers of serious fiction must shun the inheritance of realism  
or else doom themselves to stale variations within a tradition that  
had used up its potential for innovation. Writers who took this route  
would be like lion tamers or Dixieland jazz players: delightful  
adepts, perhaps, but hardly essential to the contemporary moment.


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