Reality Hunger

Reality Hunger
Author: David Shields
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-02-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0307593231


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A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past and present, to reframe debates about the veracity of memoir and the relevance of the novel. He argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality,” precisely because we experience hardly any, and urgently calls for new forms that embody and convey the fractured nature of contemporary experience.


Reality Hunger
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: David Shields
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-23 - Publisher: Vintage

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A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic iss
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Pages: 242
Authors: David Shields
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Pages: 169
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Categories: Literary Collections
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