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Literary Theory
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature.[1] However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes—in addition to, or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense—considerations of intellectual history, moral philosophy, social prophecy, and other interdisciplinary themes which are of relevance to the way humans interpret meaning. In humanities in modern academia, the latter style of scholarship is an outgrowth of critical theory and is often called simply "theory." As a consequence, t
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The writer asks himself, would A really cause B and not C, etc, and he creates what seems , at least by the test of his own imagination and experience of the world an inevitable development of story. Inevitability does not depend, of course, on realism. Some or all characters may be fabulous––dragons, griffins, Achilles' talking horses––but once a character is established for a creature, the creature must act in accord with it.
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― On Morale Fiction
― On Morale Fiction
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It is the story that makes the difference. It is the story that hid my humanity from me, the story the mammoth hunters told about bashing, thrusting, raping, killing, about the Hero. The wonderful, poisonous story of Botulism. The killer story. It sometimes seems that that story is approaching its end. Lest there be no more telling of stories at all, some of us out here in the wild oats, amid the alien corn, think we’d better start telling another one, which maybe people can go on with when the
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― The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
― The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
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