He is a graduate of the playwriting MFA at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Arizona School for the Arts. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: For centuries theres been one path through fiction. Part memoir, part craft book, and part manifesto, Meander, Spiral, Explode is sure to interest fiction writers, but also playwrights, poets, and anyone interested in formal experimentation in storytelling.Īndy Boyd is a playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. Why not draw on them, too?" Whether the meandering path of a snail, the spiral shape of a shell, or the expanding energy of an explosion, these forms can liberate writers from the strictures of linear, Aristotelian narrative. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative Jane Alison A boundlessly inventive look at narrative form filled with clarity and wit, underlain with formidable erudition. 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. ISBN 9781094007861 Author Jane Alison Narrator Bernadette Dunne Publisher Blackstone Publishing Release 15 October 2019 Share Subjects Writing Language Arts Literary Criticism Nonfiction Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. As Jane Alison writes, "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. Jane Alison Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative Paperback Illustrated, 2 April 2019 by Jane Alison (Author) 4. Jane Alison's Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Catapult, 2019) is a fascinating tour through a wide range of narrative structures that are inspired by forms in the natural world.
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