Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-contemporary American Fiction |
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Page 77
... reader is not listening to an authoritative account of the world delivered by an expert ( Faulkner on Mississippi , Hemingway on the corrida ) but bumping into something that is there , like a rock or a refrigerator . " 35 More actively ...
... reader is not listening to an authoritative account of the world delivered by an expert ( Faulkner on Mississippi , Hemingway on the corrida ) but bumping into something that is there , like a rock or a refrigerator . " 35 More actively ...
Page 100
... reader that the event had taken place or that it's a large historical process , hence that there's no direct threat to the reader . Fiction assaults the reader directly as if saying : It is about you . You are actually creating this ...
... reader that the event had taken place or that it's a large historical process , hence that there's no direct threat to the reader . Fiction assaults the reader directly as if saying : It is about you . You are actually creating this ...
Page 164
... reader is clued as to what to think . Occasionally , as if to show you that it's nothing but a gimmick , he'll write a story like Exactly Eight Thousand Dollars Exactly : one character is held against another , the reader is given over ...
... reader is clued as to what to think . Occasionally , as if to show you that it's nothing but a gimmick , he'll write a story like Exactly Eight Thousand Dollars Exactly : one character is held against another , the reader is given over ...
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