[New-Poetry] American Literature, Insularity and Ignorance

[TheOldMole]

The Nobel <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/nobelprize> prospects of 
Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates may have been dashed after the prize's 
top jury member described American writing as insular and ignorant.

Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl told the 
Associated Press that US writers were "too sensitive to trends in their 
own mass culture", which he said dragged down the quality of their work. 
"The US is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and 
don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature," Engdahl 
said. "That ignorance is restraining."

-- 
Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/

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