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The Voice inside the Voice | Character Thought in the First Person Novel —...

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Verisimilitude: The Moral Aesthetic of George Saunders — Nowick Gray

Key dimension of Saunders’ realism is the absurdism embedded within it: a natural discovery given the inherent absurdities of American culture. The post Verisimilitude: The Moral Aesthetic of George...

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Weird Plots for Strange Stories: Alternatives to Conventional Plot Structure...

. “Here we rediscover the old truth that repetition is the heart of art” (Douglas Glover, Attack of the Copula Spiders  94).   Introduction A story, like all artistic work, requires a structure upon...

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Plot, Desire, & Resistance in Two Speculative Short Stories — Jennifer Pun

Jennifer Pun   Robert Olen Butler, in his book From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction says, “It’s the dynamic of desire that is at the heart of narrative and plot” (Butler 40). Characters...

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Reliable and Unreliable Narrators in Novels with Multiple Points of View —...

 Rashmi Vaish   Introduction Fictional reliability as a device of point of view is one of the most complex elements of craft. It relates to the ways in which an author causes the narrators or...

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