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habitual construction of imagination

Andre, you are my nemesis.

iambarr | November 22, 2009

Barth – “Lost in the Funhouse” The Assignment: Show how it operates as metafiction The significant way Barth experiments with familiar narrative conventions to comment on the story-writing process. How do- -structure -point of view -style operate as vehicles for what Barth wants to communicate about the world? Do they comment on or critique aspects [...]

I love John Barth

iambarr | November 21, 2009

“Fiction about fiction, stories about storytelling, have an ancient history, so much so that I am convinced that if the first story ever told began with the words ‘Once upon a time,’ probably the second story ever told began with the words ‘Once upon a time there was a story that began Once upon a [...]

Adversaries

iambarr | March 25, 2009

“It’s a story, so I’ve personified the adversaries. But the real adversaries are almost always internal or projected.” -Douglass Rushkoff, speaking about Testament.