Tag: Reading for Perspective
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After the End of Point-of-View
A round-up of some comments by Rachel Cusk and Jonathan Gibbs on problems with perspective in contemporary fiction.
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Sympathy and Its Limits
Notes on a seeming change in perspective and/or narratorial voice in Raymond Carver’s short story ‘So Much Water So Close to Home.’
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Thinking About Thinking About Thinking
A consideration of the use of free indirect discourse in Marilynne Robinson’s Lila.
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Writing Seeing: Open City (2)
Part six of a six-part series on “writing seeing” in three novels by Edward P. Jones, Cormac McCarthy, and Teju Cole.
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Writing Seeing: Open City (1)
Part five of a six-part series on “writing seeing” in three novels by Edward P. Jones, Cormac McCarthy, and Teju Cole.
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On Narrative Voice (3): Not Alone or Adrift
Notes on the narratorial perspective of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.
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On Narrative Voice (1): The Wounded God
Notes on the narratorial perspective of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Infinite Patience 