| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
219 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. |
| Contents |
Overture -- Mimesis -- Books for people who find television too slow --Trials by Google -- Reality -- Memory -- Blur -- Now -- The reality-based community -- Hip-hop -- Reality TV -- Collage -- In praise of brevity -- Genre -- Contradiction -- Doubt -- Thinking -- Autobio -- Persona -- DS -- Alone -- It is much more important to be oneself than anything else -- Rusk -- Le me tell you what your book is about -- Manifesto -- Coda. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219). |
| Summary |
An open call for new literary and other art forms to match the complexities of the twenty-first century. Author David Shields argues that our culture is obsessed with "reality" precisely because we experience hardly any. The questions Reality Hunger explores--the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real--play out constantly all around us. Think of the controversy surrounding the provenance and authenticity of the "real": A Million Little Pieces, the Obama "Hope" poster, the boy who wasn't in the balloon. Reality Hunger is a rigorous and radical attempt to reframe how we think about "truthiness," literary license, quotation, appropriation. Shields has written this for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists in a variety of forms and media who, living in an unbearably manufactured and artificial world, are striving to stay open to the possibility of randomness, accident, serendipity, spontaneity.--From publisher description. |
| Subject |
Reality.
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Realism.
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Literature, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Literary manifestos.
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Modernism (Literature)
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| ISBN |
9780307273536 |
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0307273539 |
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