Journal article
Craft, Critical Making, and the Workshop Turn: Literary Pedagogy in the Contemporary English Department
Philological quarterly, Vol.103(3), pp.217-227
07/01/2024
Abstract
And so begins the Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida screenplay for Away We Go (2009), the story of a twentysomething pair groping toward parenthood. As with all of Eggers and, to a lesser extent, Vida--the taste-making authorial, editorial, and publishing pair behind McSweeney's and The Believer and a raft of popular and critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction--the dialogue places them on the other side of postmodernism, a kind of post-postmodernism, where slack, irony, and the self-reflexive couple with an earnestness and moral inquiry that distinguishes Eggers especially from the formal, stiff, white-boy postmodernism of, say, David Byrne or David Salle. No, Dave Eggers--would one ever call him "David Eggers"?--Dave Eggers remains sincere even in the light of the scene's gentle mockery. Given its moral about education, the scene's sincerity reaches even to them, here in the post of the post-postmodern, the literary professionals and thinkers-in-training who might happen upon an issue of the magazine.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Craft, Critical Making, and the Workshop Turn: Literary Pedagogy in the Contemporary English Department
- Creators
- Matthew Brown
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Philological quarterly, Vol.103(3), pp.217-227
- ISSN
- 0031-7977
- eISSN
- 2169-5342
- Publisher
- University of Iowa, Philological Quarterly
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2024
- Academic Unit
- English; Interdisciplinary Studies Program
- Record Identifier
- 9985014895302771
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