Essay analyzes the role of literary interviews in the New American Studies, suggesting aesthetic significance.
The interview is a form well-known to the New American Studies Journal: A Forum. In this essay, Lucy Cheseldine explores the ways in which the literary interview can be considered a modern — and modern American — form. There is a particular focus on the aesthetic dimensions of the form, as embodied most prominently in the famous Paris Review interviews.
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