Hans Robert Jauss’s believes that great literature changes horizons of expectation whereas lesser lit simply confirms them. If “Madame Bovary” was brought to trial, Jauss says, it is because it charted a new course in literary history that people didn’t understand.
The Federer and Nadal era may be over. Here they are described in Flaubert, James Patterson, and Carl Sandburg terms.
Depending on your point of view, literature reduced to tweets is either comic or horrifying.
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