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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... called into question the very fictive tradition it epitomized , but that it was a " great novel , " one in a series . Only that could explain the awe in which it was held and the totality with which it was ignored by fiction in the ...
... called into question , can only result in the text turning back on itself in the form of reflexive parody . Barth's response to this impasse is an admission and attempted exploitation of the situation , found in his essay " The ...
... called a nos- talgia for perfection , or an idea of perfection , which some- times gives his thought a Platonic tone , but , like his nostalgia for our religious myth , this is merely nostalgia . Stevens rec- ognizes an innate ...
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Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition | 3 |
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Ten Digressions | 34 |
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