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Novel affirmations: Defending literary culture in the fiction of David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Richard Powers.

机译：新颖的肯定：在大卫·福斯特·华莱士，乔纳森·弗兰森和理查德·鲍尔斯的小说中捍卫文学文化。

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This dissertation studies the fictional and non-fictional responses of David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Richard Powers to their felt anxieties about the vitality of literature in contemporary culture. The intangible nature of literature's social value marks the literary as an uneasy, contested, and defensive cultural site. At the same time, the significance of any given cultural artifact or medium, such as television, film, radio, or fiction, is in a continual state of flux. Within that broad context I examine some of the cultural institutions competing with literature for public attention, as well as some of the cultural developments impacting the availability of public attention for literary concerns. With Wallace, I study his efforts in fiction and essays to establish an anti-ironic mode of literary rebellion, in opposition to the culturally pervasive tone of self-protective irony modeled by television. Franzen opens discussion about the transience of cultural authority, a situation in which the imprimatur of the academy, for instance, confers a cultural significance different in kind but not degree from the imprimatur of a popular televised book club. My study of Franzen in particular demonstrates the impact of proliferating sites of cultural authority, addressing the emergence of middlebrow culture and audiences from contested space to authoritative cultural arbiter. The chapter on Franzen also examines the increasing role of corporate interests in the production of cultural artifacts with an eye toward their financial viability more than their cultural impact. And finally, my study of Powers focuses on the animosity between the sciences and the humanities. Powers produces fiction that serves as an indispensable tool for communicating between disparate and otherwise isolated disciplines, and for helping those specialized fields synthesize their information with others.
机译：本文研究了大卫·福斯特·华莱士，乔纳森·弗兰岑和理查德·鲍尔斯对小说在当代文化中的生命力的焦虑感的虚构和非虚构的反应。文学社会价值的无形本质标志着文学成为一种不安，有争议和防御性的文化场所。同时，任何给定的文化人工制品或媒介（例如电视，电影，广播或小说）的重要性都处于不断变化的状态。在这种广泛的背景下，我考察了一些与文学竞争以争取公众关注的文化机构，以及一些影响文学关注的公众关注程度的文化发展。与华莱士一起，我研究了他在小说和散文中建立文学反抗的反讽刺模式的努力，这与电视所模仿的自我保护的反讽在文化上普遍存在相反。弗兰森（Franzen）开启了关于文化权威过渡的讨论，在这种情况下，例如，学院的残酷性赋予了一种文化意义，但其文化意义却不同于流行的电视读书俱乐部的残酷性。我对Franzen的研究特别展示了文化权威场所不断扩大的影响，解决了中庸文化和观众的出现，从竞争的空间到权威的文化仲裁者。关于弗兰森（Franzen）的章节还考察了企业利益在生产文化人工制品中日益重要的作用，并着眼于其财务可行性而不是其文化影响。最后，我对权力的研究集中在科学与人文科学之间的敌意。 Powers产生的小说是在不同学科之间以及在其他学科之间进行交流的必不可少的工具，并且可以帮助那些专业领域与他人综合其信息。

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    Little, Michael.;

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    Texas A&M University.;

  • 授予单位 Texas A&M University.;
  • 学科 Literature American.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2004
  • 页码 215 p.
  • 总页数 215
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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