Lit. hist. and lit. of exhaustion

[G. Schmundt-Thomas]

Don Larrson writes:
<One thing to keep in mind about the legacy of literary history is how it <has
been consistently reinvented since the Renaissance (when, we might <say, the
modern conception of "literature" begain) and how its place in <the academy with
its "canons," lists and so forth is continually being <redefined.  For a
complete gloss on the subject see recent works by Gerald <Graff, who notes the
following (the bad summaries of complex matters being <entirely my own fault):

Graff is also quite good on the literature of exhaustion/postmodern literature
in a piece entitled "The myth of the postmodernist breakthrough", included in
his _Literature against itself_.

G. Schmundt-Thomas