Word: postmodernists
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...novelist who puts himself into his story is either a Postmodernist or uncommonly vain. Vidal is not a Postmodernist, but he probably deserves a place in his chronicle. He knew or met a number of the real, historical people--Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph Alsop, Tennessee Williams--who move through the pages of The Golden Age. He has been, for the past half-century, an uncommonly public literary figure: a near ubiquitous television guest and, twice, an unsuccessful candidate for elective office. Living well is Vidal's revenge, which he does much of each year at La Rondinaia, his spectacular house...
...novelist who puts himself into his story is either a Postmodernist or uncommonly vain. Vidal is not a Postmodernist, but he probably deserves a place in his chronicle. He knew or met a number of the real, historical people - Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph Alsop, Tennessee Williams - who move through the pages of "The Golden Age." He has been, for the past half-century, an uncommonly public literary figure: a near ubiquitous television guest and, twice, an unsuccessful candidate for elective office. Living well is Vidal's revenge, which he does much of each year at La Rondinaia, his spectacular house...
Ware serialized Jimmy's story in The Acme Novelty Library, the idiosyncratic comic series that established Ware as a meticulous artist who reshapes older comic art into a new and expressive form. Like any good Postmodernist, he borrows from the past--the Superman bits, 19th century ads, a touch of Little Nemo and Krazy Kat. But Ware's appropriations all serve his story. The 1890s novella uses sepia tones to depict senior Jimmy's claustrophobic home life; the '50s comics motifs perfectly capture junior Jimmy's state of arrested childhood...
What's not to like about The Patriot? Well it certainly suffers from irony deficiency. It is four-square for democracy and decency, and this, of course, will cause a certain amount of superciliousness among the postmodernist swells. Since it is a story about the American Revolution, it will suffer from the age-old suspicion of movies in which guys wear knee britches and write with quill pens. But if the mass audience can get behind Gladiator, why shouldn't it take a flier on more recent history? You telling us Russell Crowe is cuter than Mel Gibson...
Both men believe in a progressive, inclusive America, though West's Marxism and penchant for postmodernist literary criticism did not always jibe with Bradley's capitalist message...