A Dark Room on the Other Side of the World
The Missing Piece in Conversations about “Cultural Decline”
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The redemption arc, in clumsy hands, becomes cheesy and unbelievable, offending good taste more often than not. Granted. But literature has, in the past, found ways to handle this sort of plot delicately, and to great effect. After all, the question of how a person changes ought to absolutely possess a novelist – as a matter of philosophical inquir... See more
The Lost Redemption Arc
If American (and Americanized) writing has been predicated on "values," it's also been highly interested in the judgment of those values: in adjudicating what is "bad" and what is "good" in a legalistic sense. This sense of literature as a theater of judgment didn't originate with post-war writing- -see again the ninet
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