GRGR(5) Katje: in close up

Terrance F. Flaherty Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jul 6 18:01:03 CDT 1999



Paul Mackin wrote:

> Referring back again to rj's point about P's demonstration of certain
> advantages of writing over film, wasn't there a lot of talk around '73 of
> the novel's being in decline  as an art form? We don't hear much talk of
> that nowadays, do we?
>
>                         P.

YUP! But it wasn't novelists talking, it was Critical Theorists and Literary
Critics. And the "decline" began after the war or Post Modern.




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