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Linguistic Locations in Orbit | Infinite Patience
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Thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature. Edward P. Jones. Linguistic Locations in Orbit. July 27, 2015. July 29, 2015. Maxwell Donnewald’s ‘The Indescribably Real’. Has been on my mind for a few days now, ever since it went online at. Essentially a lengthy review of Atticus Lish’s debut novel,. Eparations for the Next Life. It pits Lish against Karl Ove Knausgaard and mounts a defense of Lish’s more conventionally realist aesthetics against certain admirers of Knausgaard. Hinges on Lish&...
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Daniel Davis Wood | Infinite Patience
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Thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature. Edward P. Jones. Author: Daniel Davis Wood. The Boys Who Wouldn’t Grow Up (3). August 1, 2016. August 1, 2016. Continued from the previous post. Between two descriptions of a badger in ‘Badgers’ (1979): How perilous is it to choose / not to love the life we’re shown? And I am still imperially. Male, leaving you with pain,. The rending process in the colony,. The battering ram, the boom burst from within. His heart beneath your heart is a wardrum.
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Blood and Bone | Infinite Patience
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Thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature. Edward P. Jones. S Viva La Novella Prize and was published by Xoum in 2014. It has been variously described as a work of Australian Gothic literature, as experimental historical fiction, and as “a book that actively resists easy categorisation.”. 8212; Kerryn Goldsworthy. What sort of a book is it? Is it a Gerald Murnane-Cormac McCarthy lovechild? 8212; Emily Stewart. 8230;a powerful and brutal little book…. 8212; Leah Cripps. 8212; Ilyhana Kennedy.
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How Works Works | Infinite Patience
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Thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature. Edward P. Jones. March 16, 2015. July 27, 2015. Like many readers of Édouard Levé, I first came to his books when Dalkey Archive published English translations of. 2008) several years ago. But while. Was arguably the title that received the most attention from critics — in no small part because Levé actually committed suicide ten days after delivering the manuscript to his publisher — I was more taken with. He’s never afraid, in other words, of be...
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About Me | Infinite Patience
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Thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature. Edward P. Jones. My name is Daniel Davis Wood; I’m a freelance writer and editor, and occasional tutor of students of literature, based in Birmingham, England. In a previous life, I taught literature and history at ArtsEd. In London and at the Ecole d’Humanité. In Hasliberg Goldern, Switzerland, where I was also the Dean of Academics for the American Program. Frontier Justice in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy. Which won th...
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Infinite Patience | thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature | Page 2
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Thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature. Edward P. Jones. Sympathy and Its Limits. April 14, 2016. July 25, 2016. How true to life can Claire’s voice really be, and how condescending must Carver have been for believing that he could faithfully and respectfully channel it? Is it a facile, failed attempt at domestic realism that misses its mark because Carver knew nothing of the life he sought to depict? Why did he elect to write this story in this woman’s voice? Feet, Teeth, Dust. Buildin...
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Starvation and Starscapes | Infinite Patience
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Thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature. Edward P. Jones. May 24, 2015. May 24, 2015. I found my way to Binary Star. The debut novel of Sarah Gerard, through the author’s recent critical work on Hilda Hilst. Publishing an essay on Hilst. In the Los Angeles Review of Books. And taking the lead on a roundtable discussion. In Music and Literature. Only confirmed this impression. Based closely on the author’s experiences. I mean that in quite a literal sense, since Binary Star. Because she d...
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Infiltrations, Translations | Infinite Patience
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Thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature. Edward P. Jones. June 4, 2015. July 29, 2015. The End of Days. Translated by Susan Bernofsky). Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email (Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Winner of the 2014.
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My Writing | Infinite Patience
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Thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature. Edward P. Jones. Frontier Justice in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016. For Argument’s Sake: Essays on Literature and Culture. Charleston SC: CreateSpace, 2013. Sydney: Xoum, 2014. Edward P. Jones: New Essays. Melbourne: Whetstone Press, 2011. 20, President of Editorial Committee, 2009-2010. Journal Articles and Book Chapters. Edited by Leslie Worthington and Jürgen Grandt. Eds Geoff...
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The Mathematics of Madness | Infinite Patience
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Thoughts on the what, the how, and the why of literature. Edward P. Jones. The Mathematics of Madness. April 28, 2015. May 4, 2015. 8220;Madness” and “insanity” are the words most often deployed in descriptions of Hilda Hilst’s enigmatic novella,. It gives voice to “a mind unravelling,” writes Nick Lezard. 8216;s Holly Williams. For me, however, the most captivating quality of. 8220;Poetry and mathematics,” Kéres muses, identifying his twin passions while recalling the onset of his insanity:. Of a man...
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