Having read Northrop Frye’s The Anatomy of Criticism earlier this year (see discussions here, here, and here – more to…
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor…
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 6
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 7 | Part 8…
What Is Experimental Art?
One typically hears unusual art called three different things, often interchangeably: Innovative Avant-Garde Experimental But what do these three words…
Tiny Shocks Revisited (A Continuing Criticism of James Wood’s How Fiction Works)
Earlier today John pointed toward Nigel Beale’s cleverly-titled criticism of my post “Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James…
Innovation in Art
What is innovation in art? This is something I’ve circled in my other posts, for example: “Notes on Twee, part…