Taking Seinfeld Seriously: Modernism in Popular Culture
@article{Hurd2007TakingSS, title={Taking Seinfeld Seriously: Modernism in Popular Culture}, author={Robert L. Hurd}, journal={New Literary History}, year={2007}, volume={37}, pages={761 - 776} }
The strategies employed by the creators of the critically-acclaimed show Seinfeld to reinvent the American television sitcom bear a striking resemblance to those that Gustave Flaubert devised to reinvent the French novel in the mid-nineteenth century, following late French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's account. Far from being some transnational, transmedial, and transepochal coincidence, the similarity of Flaubert's and Seinfeld's "refusals" of pre-existing and contemporary models of their…
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