American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1501 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Changed in American Fiction After 1945
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The idea
The witness describes postwar writers as highly innovative and self-aware, finding traditional modes ineffective and borrowing from comics, movies, songs and oral history. Where elite culture had shaped popular culture, the witness says the reverse now held, and that the context of vision itself had to be remade.
In practice
The traffic reversed between high and popular.
Where people slip
Borrowing from popular material is not triviality.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- Nothing. This is a starting point.
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