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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... fiction given this kind of esthetic but , like the contribution of Kerouac , it was largely in terms of a break from the esthetic of the realistic novel . His " cut - up method , " basically a method for developing collage relations ...
... fiction couldn't do that , what then could it do ? How could it compete with the daily newspaper ? It couldn't , said Tom Wolfe . And for a while fiction believed him , in the guise of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote , among others . II ...
... Fiction does not and cannot have the same sanctions as histo- ry or journalism . Critics who attack contemporary fiction for " self - consciousness " are really attacking its momentum to- ward increased consciousness of narrative as a ...
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Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition | 3 |
Thirteen Digressions | 16 |
Ten Digressions | 34 |
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