Has the novel lost its mojo?

[Versus]

I just realized that this is a thousand music threads I have read.

[Despanan]

Originally Posted by Versus

I just realized that this is a thousand music threads I have read.

Pretty much.

[Despanan]

Originally Posted by KontanKarite

First off, "ill-educated public being told by the media what good art is". I only topically agree with this. I think it's a fallacy to say that the public is ill-educated.

If anything, the public is MORE educated today than they were when Melville and the like were writing.

Pretty much everyone goes to college these days, and has at least a B.A. so once again I don't think these authors popularity is due to "ill-education"

I think their popularity is due to the fact that we as a society NEED great artists, and when there aren't any around we pretend like the good or mediocre artists are great.

[Alan]

My problem with his argument is that he's complaining about postmodernism just as an appeal of modernism.

[Despanan]

Originally Posted by Alan

My problem with his argument is that he's complaining about postmodernism just as an appeal of modernism.

Can we get that in English please?

[Alan]

Think of just this - he literally is writing a book called What Ever Happened to Modernism?

[Despanan]

Oh, okay, I get it now, though I had to read the wikis on modernist and post modernist literature to figure out what the blue fuck you were talking about.

Yeah...that's pretty lame.