/lit/ - Literature

>>19828442
Yes, and only people like Bloom represent quality as OP suggests, academics mostly look at it from the standpoint of what was the authors purpose and how well did they achieve that, it is all about the execution, not some arbitrary idea of worth. Take the infamous DFW syllabus for example (picrel), this is not all that out of the ordinary for such classes and they are not treating it as lesser or lowering themselves, they are all well executed works from the context of their purpose, if you view them as low brow that is your own failing, not theirs. The main reason that criticism mostly ignores genre is that the simpler forms (generally) leave less to explore, less ambiguity, a couple essays and they are exhausted, there is no debate, no controversy.
>>19828469
Why are you so hung up on post modernists? They are largely irrelevant and have been for some time now, they made their contributions to modernism and quietly faded away into their own little corner.

>>18629162
If you had bother to learn anything about him you would know he actually got along with normies much better than elites for the most part.

>>18629229
It was actually a class on literary analysis, so it makes even more sense.

>>18393677
The syllabus I have is the weird genre fiction one, picrel. Post the one you are going off of.

>>18393785
God forbid someone asks a question or seeks advice.

Would you sign up for DFW's class, /lit/?

have you read any of the books on DFW's syllabi? Were any of them any good?

Another one of his syllabi had:
Renata Adler - Speedboat
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
Richard Brautigan - Troutfishing in America/In Watermelon Sugar
Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays
Paula Fox - Desperate Characters
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
Percy Walker - The Moviegoer
Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children

was Wallace joking with this? it's all pop-lit

>>11648852

no pic related is his lit course

Not Ernest Cline, but other trash authors (JK Rowling, Mira Gonzalez, etc.). Some English grad students are the type to enjoy nothing more than Ulysses, and some are just skilled and really passionate about set topics but otherwise have their own trashy tastes for personal reading. Nothing wrong with that, so long as they don't lead their students astray. Pic related, the books DFW assigned his students, but he sold them as what they are.

>>9249098

Posting the full stuff.

1/3

>Mary Higgins Clark
>Stephen King

DFW was a fucking P L E B.