Practicing Post-Modernism: The Example of John Hawkes
Unsworth, John
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Practicing Post-Modernism: The Example of John Hawkes
Author(s)
Unsworth, John
Issue Date
1991
Keyword(s)
post-modernism
Hawkes, John
Abstract
"""The excitement of contemporary studies is that all of its critical practitioners and most of their subjects are alive and working at the same time. One work influences another, bringing to the field a spirit of competition and cooperation that reaches an intensity rarely found in other disciplines"" (x). In these remarks on ""contemporary studies,"" Jerome Klinkowitz takes for granted that contemporary writers and their critics belong to one ""discipline,"" the academic discipline of literary study. This affiliation of criticism and creative writing within a single institutional framework does indeed compound the influence that critic and author have on one another's work, as it multiplies the opportunities and the incentives for cooperation; but rather than simply celebrating this fact, as Klinkowitz does, we ought to inquire into the consequences of the professional interaction and practical interdependence of author and critic, particularly as it affects the creativity of the former and the judgment of the latter."
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