Valorising literature in the age of technology: some personal reflections

• Main Author: Quayum, Mohammad Abdul
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: PE English; PI Oriental languages and literatures; PN Literature (General); PR English literature; PS American literature
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/52986/1/DELL%20symposium.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/52986/2/52986_Quayum.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/52986/

In a controversial essay in The Atlantic in 1967, “The Literature of Exhaustion,” then America’s leading writer and one of the pioneers of Postmodernism, John Barth (1930-), (somewhat ironically and even hypocritically) proffered that the conventional modes of literary representation have been “used...