[identity profile] golden-bastet.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] ci5_boxoftricks
On a fact-findinng mission...

Also, if there's some sort of protocol here about asking questions, please let me know.

A bit of an odd question, but here goes:

I need to find out (1) what literary writing styles were trendy in late 70s UK; and (2) what types of books the lads were reading during the series. I know a few have been mentioned, but am not sure of what beyond Ivan Denisovich.

"Literary writing styles" could be stream of consciousness, post-post modernism, deconstructism, something else: it just has to be *trendy,* what a writer looking for publicity / audience over quality might have been aiming for. I'd expect it to be dead by now. :D

These two things - (1) vs (2) - should be mutually exclusive.

Didn't find anything on [livejournal.com profile] little_details, but will check again.

Thanks ~ :D

Date: 2012-05-13 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dawnebeth.livejournal.com
I could see Doyle being somewhat interested in Marshall McLuhen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
He wasn't particularly a writer in a literary style, but he was the first one to really study media and his books--particularly Understanding Media, which was written in the sixties, were still being discussed. He coined the medium is the message and global village.

Stephan King's the Dead Zone made the top ten in 1979, and as the above post says--Harold Robbins was quite popular.

Date: 2012-05-21 01:58 am (UTC)

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