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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... considered not about experi- ence but part of it , and which could be argued as the most vital tradition in American writing . Since it does not feel obliged to contend with notions of transcendence inherent in a lingering religious ...
... considered on a parity with truth generat- ed in other disciplines that extend , reorder , and vitalize the human domain . It works against schizoid withdrawal into abstraction or solipsism , and at the same time works against ...
... considered unworthy , a form of journalism , and many theorists are heavily involved in a new form of belles - lettres , encroaching on , rather than evaluating activity in the traditional genres . The matter of criteria in fiction has ...
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Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition | 3 |
Thirteen Digressions | 16 |
Ten Digressions | 34 |
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