all fiction is critical fiction
Posted in definitions, distinctions, Jean Rhys, Precursors, Wendy Walker, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on Mar 29th, 2012
To the Editor of the TLS Sir, Part of the task of the reviewer is to consider the book at hand as literature, that is, a written work that functions within a context. One part of that context is the history of earlier works that will illuminate the book under review. Context also reveals the […]
Posted in definitions, Jean Rhys, Jorge Luis Borges, Precursors, Wendy Walker, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on Dec 7th, 2011
Here is the introduction to Wendy Walker’s new book, My Man and other Critical Fictions (For a full size view click on individual pages, or for a full size pdf view click here). To buy the book, follow the My Man tab up top. [HWW]
Posted in Allusion, Precursors, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 10th, 2011
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Thomas Dilworth, writing in the TLS for 22 April 2011, discusses Keats’ poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, written in May 1819 (and shown above in the first edition of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. […]