all fiction is critical fiction
Posted in definitions, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 7th, 2011
Critical fiction is the literary equivalent of what happens when a visual artist creates a work in direct response or hommage to another artist’s work. One example: in 1985, when the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts mounted a retrospective of American artist Red Grooms, his relief painting William Penn Shaking Hands with the Indians […]
Posted in Didactic Hoax, Reno W. Odlin, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 7th, 2011
CENTRUM CIRCULI is one of the Didactic Hoaxes produced by the late Reno W. Odlin, author of The People’s Republic of Oz and Other Linked Ruminations (privately printed, 1996). In a letter to Henry Wessells dated 26 March 2001, he described the Didactic Hoaxes as follows : “The title is taken from an […]
Posted in definitions, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 6th, 2011
Welcome to « criticalfiction.net » , a website intended to encourage and promote the critical fiction as a means of literary discourse and formal innovation, and to provide a forum for discussion of texts, techniques, and related issues. The critical fiction may be simply defined as a literary form that adopts the techniques and language found in one […]