In Form, Digressions on the Act of FictionSouthern Illinois University Press, 1985 - 247 psl. Formmust never be taken for granted, but must be created as the work itself is shaped: "The writer works not from a priori ideas about what will happen and what form it will take, but in and through the text." Sukenick, one of our most original contemporary novelists, describes these essays as "the comments of a fiction writer about writing, not those of a critic on what has been written. They are more or less reports on experience--those of one engaged in the ongoing struggle with the angel of form, rather than of one studying its consequences from a cool distance: 'in form, ' not 'on form.'" The difficulty of creative works no longer accessible to traditional reading habits has threatened us with an age of criticism in which interpretation has become more imposing than invention. One of the tasks of modern fiction, therefore, is "to displace, energize, and re-embody its criticism--literally to reunite at with our experience of the text." |
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... American writing as a whole is still an unknown quantity , even to its practitioners , not to mention editors , critics , and scholars . The real literary situation in this country has not crystallized yet for lack of information . When ...
... American writing . A number of writers , recognizing the need for a better source of informa- tion about American writing , have participated in the found- ing of the American Book Review , now in its second year of pub- lication ...
... Americans had antecedents in an important North American voice , Faulkner , who , howev- er influenced by Joyce , is very different from him in that his collective voice is not that of " the tradition . " In the Ameri- cas , where we ...
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Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition | 3 |
Thirteen Digressions | 16 |
Ten Digressions | 34 |
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