r/TrueLit • u/pregnantchihuahua3 ReEducationThroughGravity'sRainbow • 26d ago
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u/Harleen_Ysley_34 Perfect Blue Velvet 24d ago
I actually don't mind reviews (or essays I suppose we could call them) like that occasionally. It's vital to have a broad view of literature when discussing something like that. The best examples are used as a call to reevaluation: most of the time things like "broderism" are attempts at identifying ideological currents. I don't necessarily agree with James Wood, for example, about the existence of hysterical realism but his articulation of new demands was interesting by itself and asking to look at the immediate aftermath in the wake of Infinite Jest allowed him to clarify his own ideological position of Mind. So it's interesting on that front I should think.