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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3358535" data-attributes="member: 4937">Post modernism does not encourage one to write from the heroic perspective if one wants to be taken seriously.  (You'll find that in current era the majority of praise is given to victim narratives, which are usually of a form I call "reader absolution delusions" in that they are experienced as giving the sense to the reader that the understand some hardship and by this false sense of understanding absolve the reader of his apathy, detachment, and comfortable life.)  Therefore, the only real heroic characters in modern literature tend to be found in blatant fantasy and science fiction, where the writer seldom cares whether he's being taken seriously because he or she knows that simply because of the genera he is writing in his or her work will be dismissed.Yes.  But consider the snears that Stephen King still recieves from establishment critics.We live in an age were we do not know ourselves, and we probably will not know ourselves.  Decades or centuries past what we will have done that will be remembered and accounted worthy will probably look nothing like what wins awards and obtains praise now.  We are unable to right about ourselves in a true and clear voice and so the only things we have left are on one hand ghoulish self-loathing (of which I would consider 'LoEG' a part) and on the other sheer fancy (and 'LoEG' manages to be both).</blockquote>