Description: Meander, Spiral, Explode : Design and Pattern in Narrative: Library Edition, CD/Spoken Word by Alison, Jane; Dunne, Bernadette (NRT), ISBN 1094007862, ISBN-13 9781094007861, Brand New, Free shipping in the US “Doctors don’t imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, original book about narrative is our new Aristotle.” ?Edmund White, author of The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: “For centuries there’s been one path through fiction we’re most likely to travel?one we’re actually told to follow?and that’s the dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides…But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collapses? Bit masculo-sexual, no? So many other patterns run through nature, tracing other deep motions in life. Why not draw on them, too?” W. G. Sebald’s Emigrants was the first novel to show Alison how forward momentum can be created by way of pattern, rather than the traditional arc?or, in nature, wave. Other writers of nonlinear prose considered in her “museum of specimens” include Nicholson Baker, Anne Carson, Marguerite Duras, Gabriel García Márquez, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Robison. Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. It will appeal to serious readers and writers alike.
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Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Rhetoric, Books & Reading
Book Title: Meander, Spiral, Explode Lib/E : Design and Pattern in Narrative
Language: English
Genre: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Jane Alison
Format: Compact Disc
