all fiction is critical fiction
Posted in definitions, examples, influence, Wendy Walker, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on Oct 14th, 2011
Temporary Culture and Henry Wessells are pleased to announce a Critical Fiction Symposium on Tuesday 25 October 2011 to celebrate the publication of a new book by Wendy Walker. MY MAN & OTHER CRITICAL FICTION is an original collection of 8 critical fictions on Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo, King Lear, Olaudah Equiano, Harry Mathews, and other […]
Posted in definitions, distinctions, influence, Tom La Farge, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 20th, 2011
Tom La Farge writes: Here’s what I’d say about critical fictions: that all writers are readers, that most writers are magpies, reading for the shiny threads they snatch up and carry off to their hoards, to be used in something they write sooner or later. You can’t call this “critical” on their part, even though […]
Posted in Charles Dickens, distinctions, echoes, influence, Joseph Conrad, Tom La Farge, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 18th, 2011
To discern the influence of an earlier text is not sufficient grounds to identify a literary work as a critical fiction (except in the broadest sense of the subtitle of this project, that all fiction is critical fiction and addresses earlier texts). To discern traces of influence in a literary work is analyzing seed and […]