Hacker News with Generative AI: Literary Criticism

No Way Home (literaryreview.co.uk)
Since the deplorably premature death of W G Sebald in a road accident in 2001, Jo Catling, a former colleague of his at the University of East Anglia, has been among the most dedicated keepers of his flame.
Literary Criticism, Authors, Writing, UK
24 points by pepys 13 days ago | 3 comments
The Modern Novel: The world-wide literary novel from early 20th Century onwards (themodernnovel.org)
This website celebrates the world-wide literary novel since approximately the beginning of the twentieth century, arranged by nationality.  It is a personal but extensive survey of literary fiction since around 1900, which will continue to grow.
Literature, Novels, 20th Century, History, Literary Criticism
8 points by Caiero 25 days ago | 1 comments
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel (thebaffler.com)
Did the novels of the twentieth century accomplish anything? Edwin Frank, who is known for his love of the genre, is convinced they did. In his stylish, selective survey Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, he focuses on the genre’s formal innovations, which take readers’ minds off their somewhat vulgar appetite for suspenseful plot and relatable character and teach them to be satisfied, instead, with something like a diet of single sentences, exquisitely prepared.
Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Criticism
30 points by samclemens 69 days ago | 1 comments
The Bleak Genius of Michel Foucault (compactmag.com)
Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Social Theory
54 points by Caiero 239 days ago | 76 comments
Ladders last a long time: Reading Raphael Samuel (lrb.co.uk)
History, Books, Reviews, Literary Criticism
14 points by pepys 280 days ago | 7 comments