It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation.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.ĭieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, I, LT, L, LR, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden. 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 It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let's leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. Novelist and writing teacher Jane Alison illuminates the. Outlets such as Brevity, Catapult, and Lithub publish craft essays online. 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. Buy a used copy of Meander, Spiral, Explode : Design and Pattern in Narrative book by Jane Alison. Jane Alisons Meander, Spiral, Explode explores narrative structure. 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. But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collapses? Bit masculosexual, no? So many other patterns run through nature, tracing other deep motions in life. Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom to explore but with enough guidance to thrive." -Maris Kreizman, Vulture 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. filled with clarity and wit, underlain with formidable erudition." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read. Meander, Spiral, Explode Jane Alison Published by Catapult, New York (2019) ISBN 10: 1948226138 ISBN 13: 9781948226134 New paperback Quantity: 5 Seller: Blackwell's (Oxford, OX, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description paperback. (Apr.Produktbeschreibung A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 One of Poets & Writers' Best Books for Writers " boundlessly inventive look at narrative form. It would do a disservice to this work to pigeonhole it as “literary criticism” the study is filled with clarity and wit, underlain with formidable erudition. She begins by urging the reader to “look at text close-up” and examine “the tiniest particles a reader encounters: letters, phonemes.” She then assesses how “different types or lengths of words, sentences, and speeds lets you design a narrative as variegated as a garden.” As full texts come under examination, Alison reveals recurring shapes that “coincide with fundamental patterns in nature,” rather than “the plotted arc,” including waves in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus meandering paths, like rivers or snail trails, that allow the reader to “wander a bit, look about, pause,” in Marguerite Duras’s The Lover, and spirals, akin to both DNA and the Milky Way, in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street. Meander, Spiral, Explode from creative writing professor and author Jane Alison provides ideas for alternative narrative forms. The shape in question is the “dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides.” Alison would have readers conceive of other dramatic shapes, which she finds by closely examining particular texts. “How curious that a single shape has governed our stories for years,” ponders Alison ( Nine Island), a novelist and University of Virginia creative writing teacher, in her boundlessly inventive look at narrative form.
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