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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... imitation of re- ality to imitation of literature . This attempt to turn defeat into victory is based on an initial misapprehension of defeat . Fiction does not and cannot have the same sanctions as histo- ry or journalism . Critics who ...
... imitation or representation . In physics , for example , we discovered that no exact representation of phenomena is possible at the atomic level for one reason : the observer gets in the way of what he's observing . The only possible ...
... imitating culture forms . Writing is now imitation of other writing , which is an interesting idea and one that in many ways I agree with . But it's also a kind of dead end . There seems to be an intermediate step that Barth is leaving ...
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Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition | 3 |
Thirteen Digressions | 16 |
Ten Digressions | 34 |
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