Description: How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read . . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom to explore but with enough guidance to thrive. ―Maris Kreizman, Vulture
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 | A Poets & Writers Best Books for Writers
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 masculosexual, 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 García Márquez, 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 It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation.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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Book Title: Meander, Spiral, Explode Format: Paperback
Genre: General/trade
Narrative Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Meander, Spiral, Explode : Design and Pattern in Narrative
Language: English
Publisher: CATAPULT
Subject: Handwriting, Rhetoric, Semiotics & Theory, Creativity
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Author: Jane Alison
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Self-Help
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
