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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... narrative point of view will go unchallenged because it has the authority of their knowledge . But what happens to such narrative authority when the data of a culture become ambiguous ? The status of the narrator must reflect the condi ...
... narrative au- thority . The narrative situation is similar in Michael Brown- stein's persuasively lunatic Country Cousins and - but in terms of middle class blandness — in the fiction of James Schuyler . The area of authority for ...
... narrative authority implied by the general increase in our consciousness of lin- guistic and narrative limitations . In fact , the variety and so- phistication of the actual narrative attempts to meet this situ- ation - as opposed to ...
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Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition | 3 |
Thirteen Digressions | 16 |
Ten Digressions | 34 |
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