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Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction

Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction

Peck, Dale

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Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 1565848748
ISBN13: 9781565848740
Publisher: New Press
Published: Jun 24 2004
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.64 Depth: 7.46
Language: English

Since the initial publication of Hatchet Jobs, the groves of literary criticism have echoed with the clatter of steel on wood. From heated panels at Book Expo in Chicago to contretemps at writers' watering holes in New York, voices--even fists--have been raised.

Peck's bracing philippic proposes that contemporary literature is at a dead end. Novelists have forfeited a wider audience, succumbing to identity politicking and self-reflexive postmodernism. In the torrent of responses to this fulguration, opinions were not so much divided as cleaved in two with, for example, Carlin Romano contending that Peck's judgments are worse than nasty--they are hysterical and Benjamin Schwarz retorting that in his meticulous attention to diction, his savage wit, his exact and rollicking prose and his disdain for pseudointellectual flatulence, Dale Peck is Mencken's heir.

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