Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative: Library Edition

Alison, Jane

ISBN 10: 1094007862 ISBN 13: 9781094007861

Verlag: Blackstone Pub, 2019

�Doctors don�t imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, original book about narrative is our new Aristotle.� ?Edmund White, author of The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: �For centuries there�s been one path through fiction we�re most likely to travel?one we�re actually told to follow?and that�s the dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides�But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collapses? Bit masculo-sexual, no? So many other patterns run through nature, tracing other deep motions in life. Why not draw on them, too?�

W. G. Sebald�s Emigrants was the first novel to show Alison how forward momentum can be created by way of pattern, rather than the traditional arc?or, in nature, wave. Other writers of nonlinear prose considered in her �museum of specimens� include Nicholson Baker, Anne Carson, Marguerite Duras, Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Robison.

Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let�s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. It will appeal to serious readers and writers alike.

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�ber die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jane Alison is the author of a memoir, The Sisters Antipodes, and four novels―The Love-Artist, The Marriage of the Sea, Natives and Exotics, and Nine Island―and is also the translator of Ovid's stories of sexual transformation, Change Me. She is professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville. Find out more at www.JaneAlisonAuthor.com.

Bernadette Dunne is the winner of more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.

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