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." |
Knygos viduje
Rezultatai 13 iš 29
... possible release of the energy of the person- ality into the work , and when one comes into contact with that force , the whole superstructure that one had assumed to be the point of literature begins to burn away . After Miller it was ...
... possible at the atomic level for one reason : the observer gets in the way of what he's observing . The only possible manner of representation becomes a statistical one which is highly approximate . The connection between what used to ...
... possible between the plain view of reality and its oppo- site , the imaginative view . It is only another manifestation of this antithetic character that despite his acknowledgement of change , Stevens longed for peace , for stasis ...
Turinys
Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition | 3 |
Thirteen Digressions | 16 |
Ten Digressions | 34 |
Autorių teisės | |
Nerodoma skirsnių: 8