Fiction Writing

No One Is Safe from the Parodist (Part 4) by Barbara Ardinger

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

Just imagine it! See it now! You can learn the secrets of the New Alchemy and make your life free from all outside... more Just imagine it! See it now! You can learn the secrets of the New Alchemy and make your life free from all outside government interference! Tornado or hurricane in the neighborhood? Don’t call FEMA. Take care of it yourself! Finances unstable where you live? Listen to Old-Phashioned Phinancial Philosophers and print more money yourself! Plague or pandemic in town? Don’t call the AMA. Heal yourself. (And your family.) Terror attack or plane crash? Don’t call the TSA. Get out your gun and get those bad guys before they get you. Study the age-old secrets of the New Alchemy and learn what Do It Yourself really means. Become wholly independent by joining the Holy Independent Order (Reconstructed).

No One Is Safe from the Parodist (Part 3) by Barbara Ardinger

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

Vader has lost the helmet and is now old and fat and speaks in a tenor voice. He’s obviously the smartest guy in the... more Vader has lost the helmet and is now old and fat and speaks in a tenor voice. He’s obviously the smartest guy in the room.

I am not the first to mess with Shakespeare. In 1680, a hack named Nahum Tate rewrote King Lear to give it a happy ending (Cordelia marries Edgar and they assume the throne), and in 1699, Colley Cibber “adapted” Richard III. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Shakespeare’s plays were operacized, balletized, and Broadwayized (The Boys from Syracuse, West Side Story) In 1868, French operatic composer Ambroise Thomas wrote a Hamlet in which Ophelia sings a long aria and dies. After wild applause, she gets up and sings some more. I’ve seen this opera.

Satire; Groteske [Handbuchartikel]

by Lino Wirag

Unveröffentliche Lemmata zu einem "Handbuch des literarischen Schreibens"; Fokus auf Praxisanwendung

G. M. Vizyenos: Complete Bibliography (Prose)

by Andreas Andreou

Bibliography for all of G.M. Vizyenos' prose fiction and non-fiction (1879-1895). Vizyenos did not leave behind any... more Bibliography for all of G.M. Vizyenos' prose fiction and non-fiction (1879-1895). Vizyenos did not leave behind any manuscripts of his prose, nor did he collect it in any book form while in life.

Future Tense

by Samuel Cohen

"I’ve been thinking some lately about why I‘m in the job I’m in. I don’t mean why I got my job (as a professor of... more "I’ve been thinking some lately about why I‘m in the job I’m in. I don’t mean why I got my job (as a professor of contemporary American literature) — that’s an endless mystery — but why I wanted to do this sort of thing in the first place."

"Looking Back at the Donald Barthelme Workshops"

by Teresa Burns

_Gulf Coast_ put this edition out right after Donald Barthelme died, and much of the issue is writing and artwork by and about Don Barthelme.

Memoir of the writer's experience in Barthelme's workshops... written a LONG time ago. Memoir of the writer's experience in Barthelme's workshops... written a LONG time ago.

Blurring fiction with reality: the strange case of Amnesia, an Italian radio mockumentary

by Tiziano Bonini

published in: Gazi A., Starkey G., Jedrzejewski S., Radio content in the Digital Age: the evolution of a sound medium, Londra, Intellect Books, 2011.

Amnésia is a mockumentary that tells the story of a young man, Matteo Caccia, a former speaker of the Italian public... more Amnésia is a mockumentary that tells the story of a young man, Matteo Caccia, a former speaker of the Italian public radio, who suffered from a form of amnesia which erased all memories from the first 32 years of his life.
Amnesia is the story of a man who is living every day as it was the first. Every day Matteo tells listeners about his new life, using the language of radio and multimedia.The War of the Worlds by Orson Welles was the first radio drama that blurred fiction with reality.Different theories tried to understand audience reactions to that broadcast. Welles was the first toshow us how media representations of reality could be realistic but false at the same time. Many years have passed since that radio drama was aired; audiences have become accustomed to a more complex mediascape and have refined their media expertise; however, the case of Italian serial radiodrama Amnesia shows us how radio can still play a powerful role in structuring and conditioning audience beliefs.This paper will describe the format of Amnesia and the way it blurred fiction with reality, experimenting with the genre of drama. The study will also show different audience reactions to the programme (believers vs. non-believers) through an analysis of listeners' emails.

Historical Sites of the Present: Deadwood as Cognitive Mapping

by Sean Legassick

When we look for television that ‘cognitively maps’ contemporary capitalism, we are drawn first to present-day... more When we look for television that ‘cognitively maps’ contemporary capitalism, we are drawn first to present-day narratives that extend over contemporary urban landscapes to explore the spatial displacement of flows of cause and effect within late capitalism. David Simon's The Wire, for example, tracks exactly such flows through its portrayal of a contemporary American city in decay. This paper argues that we can also consider recent works of semi-historical television drama as cognitive mappings, where the narrative is temporally displaced and spatially confined. David Milch's Deadwood is one example, a show that charts the transition of Deadwood from illegal and lawless frontier settlement to a company town annexed by the US Dakota territory, figuring a transitional period for the US state and US capital, mapping that era onto our present.

The Strays of Moscow: and Other Stories

by Diana Pho

Honors Thesis. Mount Holyoke College. 2007.

MasQue

by Hussein Khalil

Assigned Spring 2011, ENG 249 - Advanced Fiction Writing

A young girl is haunted by vivid dreams, as she slowly but surely approaches the end of young-adulthood. Qiyana... more A young girl is haunted by vivid dreams, as she slowly but surely approaches the end of young-adulthood. Qiyana struggles to maintain her identity and her sanity as a significant chapter in her life comes to a quiet yet violent close.

Intorno a una descrizione" sbagliata" di Manzoni

by Giulio Savelli

Published in "Strumenti critici" 89, n.s., XIV, 1999, 1, pp. 105-27.

About this paper see:

1) more About this paper see:

1) http://www.giuliosavelli.eu/index.htm#Promessi

and the talks

2)"Fra descrizione e visone: suggerimenti di un caso limite"

3)"A tavola con don Rodrigo: appunti su descrizione e visione".

The cares of the day

by Ivan Webster

The Puzzle of Historical Criticism

by Christopher Bartel

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (2): 213-222.

Works of fiction are often criticized for their historical inaccuracies. But this practice poses a problem: why would... more Works of fiction are often criticized for their historical inaccuracies. But this practice poses a problem: why would we criticize a work of fiction for its historical inaccuracy given that it is a work of fiction? There is an intuition that historical inaccuracies in works of fiction diminish their value as works of fiction; and yet, given that they are works of fiction, there is also an intuition that such works should be free from the constraints of historical truth. The puzzle of historical criticism is that these intuitions are obviously in conflict, and yet we wish to give up neither. In this essay, I address the shortcomings of two seemingly intuitive strategies for solving the puzzle: the puzzle cannot be solved by appealing to historical constraints of a work’s genre, nor can it be explained as an instance of imaginative resistance. Given the failure of these two strategies, I suggest that there is no easy way to account for our conflicting intuitions and that the puzzle is deserving of greater attention.

Sleep Without Dreaming

by M Paz Galupo

Professor Conundrum Mysteries!:... When Math Is a Mystery.

by Bill Streifer

Professor Conundrum Mysteries! is available at several U.S. libraries and can be purchased on Google Books, Qoop.com and elsewhere.

When the murder of a young co-ed on the Harvard campus goes unsolved, Prof. Conundrum, an elderly mathematics... more When the murder of a young co-ed on the Harvard campus goes unsolved, Prof. Conundrum, an elderly mathematics professor, and his teaching assistant, Ms. Terry, use their mathematics skills to solve the crime.

Review of 'Bennett and Wells: Their Friendship, Fiction & Films', ed. John Shapcott; 'The Anatomy of Utopia' by Károly Pintér; and 'The Island of Doctor Moreau', ed. Mason Harris

by John Partington

From 'Kritikon Litterarum', 38, 3/4 (2011), pp. 286-291

The Authenticity of Archaeological Fictions

by Allison Mickel

Mickel A.: The Authenticity of Archaeological Fictions. In: Smith C., Smith J. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology: SpringerReference (www.springerreference.com). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/SpringerReference_300609 2011-10-20 23:02:18 UTC

Ficción narrativa y Evolución

by José Angel García Landa

Narrative Fiction and Evolution
   
This is a review, in Spanish, of Steven Pinker's essay... more Narrative Fiction and Evolution
   
This is a review, in Spanish, of Steven Pinker's essay "Toward a Consilient Study of Literature", which is itself a review of and a response to the theories expounded in the collection on literary sociobiology "The Literary Animal", edited by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson. Some insights and limitations of cultural darwinism are here examined from the point of view of emergentist philosophy, anthropology and philology, complementing Pinker's psychological critique.

Keywords: Evolution, Pinker, Consilience, Fiction, Narrative, Sociobiology

Les monuments du passé: traces et représentations d'une histoire dans la littérature

by Fiona McIntosh

Booth One

by Peter Levine