• DOI:10.1353/nlh.2007.0005
Corpus ID: 55842151

Taking Seinfeld Seriously: Modernism in Popular Culture

@article{Hurd2006TakingSS,
  title={Taking Seinfeld Seriously: Modernism in Popular Culture},
  author={R. Hurd},
  journal={New Literary History},
  year={2006},
  volume={37},
  pages={761 - 776}
}

• R. Hurd
• Published 2006
• Sociology
• New Literary History

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… Expand

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