tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699996156051897761.post3852911820806175919..comments2023-10-25T17:50:35.550-04:00Comments on Hipsters Are Boring: Schmaltz BallsKaitlyn Kochanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786479100009809264noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699996156051897761.post-38657148130933138942010-11-14T03:46:06.944-05:002010-11-14T03:46:06.944-05:00Well, I'm certainly not an expert. What I was ...Well, I'm certainly not an expert. What I was taught in school was that, from a literary standpoint, modernism could thought of as a reaction to the ornate prose and goofy storytelling of the Victorian era. It's muscular, clean, straightforward, realistic writing, the first example of which might be Henry Roth's Call It Sleep. Most contemporary novels are what we consider "modern" writing. <br /><br />Post-modern writing came a generation later, and surfaced in the form of a trickier writing style. It's more experimental and metaphysical, sometimes autobiographical and definitely calls attention to the act of writing as an act of creation. Modernist writers aimed to present the world; post-modern writers try to present the writing. <br /><br />What comes after? I don't know. There are definitely thoughtful and critical writers who are experimenting with narrative and the written form, and Wallace was a great example of that: Infinite Jest is a po-mo novel, maybe <i>the</i> po-mo novel. It might be weird to say, but blogging, with its fractured readability (how many times do people get taken out of the entry by embedded links that are <i>designed</i> to take you out of the entry?) is the next generation of writing. Call it collaborative writing or linked narrative, but it's a very peculiar style of reading and writing that's definitely becoming more common and more accepted.Kaitlyn Kochanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786479100009809264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699996156051897761.post-51020585074990215452010-11-06T11:44:19.824-04:002010-11-06T11:44:19.824-04:00I just finished reading an a review by David Foste...I just finished reading an a review by David Foster Wallace of a biographical book by Edwin Williamson (Borges: A Life - published 2004) on the life of Jorge Luis Borges , of whom Wallace was a great admirer not to say devotee, in which Wallace, once again, makes remarks about the relationship between modernism and post-modernism. Since I know you are a Wallace connoisseuse, I was wondering... could you possibly explicate the difference between the two and tell us what you think comes after post-modernism?Richardnoreply@blogger.com