Language & Literature
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Storytelling: The Past and Future of the American Novel
5:30pm | Friday 30 March 2012| Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
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This was an Oxford Literary Festival 2012 Event.
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American writers have been trying for almost a century to move past an idea of the novel that was established by the modernists. With hybrid works – like the fiction of Michael Chabon, Paul Auster, Kelly Link, Jonathan Lethem, Neal Stephenson and Lev Grossman himself – writers are beginning to cross the divide between literary fiction and genre fiction. The old hierarchies are collapsing, and the emphasis on high style is falling away. Storytelling is becoming central to the art of the novel.
Lev Grossman is a journalist at Time Magazine and the author of best-selling novels Codex, The Magicians and The Magician King.
Read more about his talk at www.rai.ox.ac.uk
This event marks the launch of an American literature and culture strand within the festival to be based at the Rothermere American Institute of Oxford University from 2013. The RAI is the foremost academic institution for teaching and research in US culture, history and politics beyond America’s shores.
In association with the Rothermere American Institute.
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