Earlier today John pointed toward Nigel Beale’s cleverly-titled criticism of my post “Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works.” I’m looking forward to Nigel’s longer criticism; in the meantime I thought I’d reply regarding the mistakes Wood makes in his readings of Viktor Shklovsky and William H. Gass, since Nigel [...]
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“[T]he pseudo-intellectuals at Big Other…”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, How Fiction Works, James Wood, Nigel Beale on February 21, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Nigel Beale, a “writer, broadcaster, bibliophile,” and, it appears, fan of and apologist for James Wood, insults Big Other’s contributors and commenters in a post that can be found HERE. Without a semblance of critical thinking, he calls A D Jameson’s essay, “Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works”, a “lengthy [...]
Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ann Quin, B.S. Johnson, Breathless (1960), Breathless (1983), Chekhov, Cthulhu, Curtis White, Flaubert, G.I. Joe, Hamlet, Henry James, How Fiction Works, James Wood, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-François Lyotard, John Gardner, John Ruskin, Last Tango in Paris, Les Carabiniers, Madame Bovary, Nabokov, ostranenie (enstrangement), Saul Bellow, The 400 Blows, The Concept of Character in Fiction, The Middle Mind, Theodore Adorno, Theory of Prose, Three Blondes and Death, Tripticks, Viktor Shklovsky, Watchmen, William H. Gass, Yuriy Tarnawsky on January 31, 2010 | 42 Comments »
[Update: As if this post weren't long enough, there's now a Part 2.] On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s post “The Dull King”; on January 25 I read his second post “Cover Your Tracks.” Both were about reading James Wood’s How Fiction Works. Before that I’d heard of James Wood but hadn’t read anything [...]
Uncover Your Tracks: A Preliminary Critique of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aristotle, Ben Jonson, Don Quixote, Flarf, free indirect style, Gravity's Rainbow, Gustave Flaubert, How Fiction Works, James Cameron, James Wood, John Gardner, leitmotif, Madame Bovary, Night Moves, On Moral Fiction, rhetoric, Shakespeare, Shya Scanlon, The Red and the Black, Thomas Pynchon, Tristram Shandy, Wagner on January 27, 2010 | 41 Comments »
Shya posted something two days ago about James Wood’s How Fiction Works, in which Wood advocates the use of “free indirect style”: The entire book is built around a concept he calls “free indirect style,” which essentially refers to a prose style for which Gustave Flaubert is largely responsible. One of the hallmarks of this [...]
Cover your tracks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Balzac, finger print, Flaubert, free indirect style, James Wood, Nabokov on January 25, 2010 | 32 Comments »
I’m (still) reading How Fiction Works, by James Wood. The entire book is built around a concept he calls “free indirect style,” which essentially refers to a prose style for which Gustave Flaubert is largely responsible. One of the hallmarks of this style is that the language is most often experienced by the reader to [...]
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