Comments on: Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works

By: Viktor Shklovsky wants to make you a better writer, part 1: device & defamiliarization | HTMLGIANT

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:02:30 +0000

[...] is “остранение”). And this is a concept that has been much misunderstood. (Here are two examples of literary critic James Wood completely botching it; mistaking it as being akin to [...]

By: Franzen’s Status | HTMLGIANT

Franzen’s Status | HTMLGIANT — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:01:27 +0000

[...] offers itself irresistibly”—that’s what most appeals to readers ages 18–34. (He and James Wood should form a [...]

By: Art as Inheritance, part 2: Making New Art Appear as Old Text Disappears (as if by Magic!) « BIG OTHER

Tue, 10 May 2011 20:17:57 +0000

[...] in this view, collage becomes a means of realistically rendering the urban landscape. (Take that, James Wood!) In much the same spirit, John A. Walker notes that: The peeling, torn or lacerated posters found [...]

By: A Guide to My Writing Here at Big Other « BIG OTHER

A Guide to My Writing Here at Big Other « BIG OTHER — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:07:42 +0000

[...] Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works — I reject Wood’s book’s central argument, and reveal several factual errors he makes [...]

By: Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, pt 2 « BIG OTHER

Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, pt 2 « BIG OTHER — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:24:51 +0000

[...] in other works) until it overwhelms the more familiar aspects of her artwork, distorting and enstranging the entire thing. Hence Manet and Degas exaggerated the de-emphasis of line and more energetic [...]

By: Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (aka, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal) « BIG OTHER

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:48:34 +0000

[...] Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works: 967 views [...]

By: A D Jameson

A D Jameson — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:07:27 +0000

Thanks for the comment! I like it, too…in my own way.

(Although I’d call it a nutcracker of a book.)

By: the hat

the hat — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:37:33 +0000

I think James Woods wrote a cracker of a book! I like it!

By: What Is Experimental Art? « BIG OTHER

What Is Experimental Art? « BIG OTHER — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:52:39 +0000

By: The Dominant, ctd. « BIG OTHER

The Dominant, ctd. « BIG OTHER — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:29:38 +0000

[...] James Wood doesn’t like Harry Potter, but the writing is third-person limited and focused on image. [...]