What was Literature?: Class Culture and Mass Society
- ISBN-10
- 0671249835
- ISBN-13
- 9780671249830
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Leslie A. Fiedler
Description
In a rambling series of essays -- partly analytical, partly polemical, and partly autobiographical -- Fiedler takes issue with the elitist and prescriptive tendency among the self-appointed guardians of art, and with the modern split between 'high' and 'low' forms of literature. He argues that traditional approaches to and standards of literature have become obsolete, and a criticism which ignores or condescends to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone with the Wind, Roots et alia can have little to say about American culture.
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