Literature must achieve more, aesthetically, than movies and TV to stay alive — the EUP media-competition thesis in…
echoes
From: ZEIT Online interview with DFW (January 2007) — The Sound of Thought (Howling Fantods English back-translation)
- Early text:
[scene] In Thomas Mann's day there was no TV and none of
the other media that fix your position as viewer and mostly show people
from outside; for literature to stay aesthetically alive it has to achieve
more than movies and TV — which for him means the interior register the
screen cannot reach [q12]
- IJ echo: E Unibus Pluram's television-attention argument and IJ's
execution of it (e-unibus-pluram)
- Weight: shared-preoccupation