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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... character- ization having characters interact and conflict within a fic- tional world , for example is really not very unlike the ordi- nary process of the mind in any inquiry about anything . In this case , instead of the entities ...
... characters tend to be very fluid . This represents my sense that character is much more heavily influenced from moment to moment by environment , both interior and exterior , than seemed to be the case in the tradi- tional novel . In my ...
... character . You get K. , who is a character but in a linguistic sense . And in Beckett you sometimes get somebody who's a locus who not only doesn't know who he is , he doesn't know what he is - I guess that's the extreme and in Henry ...
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Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition | 3 |
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