The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

—All right. It’s something like ‘Yowwwww-oh-woe-woe.’ —And that sounds brutal to you? —It does. —It sounds to me like I’m very h ...

A collaboration between two writers can happen in many different ways. Two writers can sit together in a room and work together, ...

When I collaborated with Anne Brewster we usually wrote a section each, though occasionally one of us would write two or three p ...

quotation in the first section with the metaphor of the birds, and the sense of movement is also projected in the second stanza ...

REFERENCES Albee, E. 1965, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , Penguin, London. Amis, M. 2003, Time’s Arrow or The Nature of the O ...

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chapter seven Postmodernist f(r) ictions This chapter introduces and elucidates the concept of postmodernism, showing how contem ...

Create a postmodern character who: a) is loosely differentiated (that is, not clearly differentiated from others in the narrati ...

relationships: these constrain and dictate their actions, rather than allowing them to act entirely as free individuals. POSTMOD ...

TO PLOT OR NOT TO PLOT? The traditional idea of a plot is that it hinges on rising and falling action. According to the Freytag ...

In the novel The Unconsoled (Ishiguro 1996), by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, the action moves towards a performance b ...

with the meeting. We think that there may be some unexpected twists in the meeting itself. However, instead the story revolves a ...

daughter, finds her, sees her from a distance in the street, and then decides that he will not meet her after all. Here we see h ...

Narratologists, on the other hand, remind us that characters are con- structs, even if they often seem to be like real people. T ...

investigating (while his own dead son is also called Peter). Through these kinds of doublings, ‘City of Glass’ plays with a lack ...

characters have sometimes been regarded as ‘flat’, lacking in the mixture of behavioural traits which brings the character to li ...

particular type of behaviour, and to highlight the obsessions, blindspots, energies and neuroses which are a familiar part of co ...

In order to confront this you need, first and foremost, to be aware of the political issues involved. If you decide to cross cul ...