Category: Essay
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The Metafictional Devices of The Body Artist and “Sunset Blvd.”
On page 90 of Waugh, she discusses the two problems involved in studying the relations between “fiction” and “reality.” She writes that first, there is the paradox concerning the identity of fictional characters; and second there is the status of literary-fictional discourse or the problem of referentiality. Then on page 91, Waugh states, “a fictional…
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Meaning and Writing
Annie Dillard‘s allegorical essay The Writing Life celebrates the serendipity of writing. She resonates with abstractions of natural imagery, composing philosophical observations of importance to authors deliberately working towards establishing standards of judgement in literature. To write one must exist with intentional capacity to desire to read. Writers dissolve at the typewriter with ubiquitous resolve…
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Understanding
“Why Must We Reinvent the Wheel?” A Writer’s Struggle for Understanding Janet Ridout In “The Workshop and Its Discontents” by Camoin, he writes “‘Well write the stuff,’ we say. ‘Let the others (across the hall, the critics) talk about it.’” (Camoin 3) This is how some feel in the discipline of English, the visual arts,…
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Serendipity
Janet Alisa Ridout Jervey Tervalon MCW 600 14 November 2012 Didactic Instruction and the Elusive Muse of Serendipity Silence is conducive to introversion. Inhibition begets silence. Some revere silence as uncomfortable. Silence denotes peace. Silence is golden. Silence is presence of mind. Silence is discipline, thought, reflection, and wisdom. Silence means it is time to…