My recent posts have been a sort of rough draft of my project on narrative world building. The basis of this project is a three-part framework I’ve derived from ideas first developed by James Phelan. Phelan doesn’t agree with the way I use his ideas—if you’re interested, see our collaborative book “Debating Rhetorical Narratology” (Ohio … Continue reading Versions of Reality
Tag: literature
Novels: The Formless Form?
I just happened to read a book of literary criticism that I’ve owned for many years but never got around to reading: The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction, by Gabriel Josipovici (Macmillan 1971). Josipovici is a prolific writer, a novelist and a critic and a playwright. This is the only book … Continue reading Novels: The Formless Form?