NARRATIVE SENTENCES

NARRATIVE SENTENCES

Prose cannot describe without beginning to narrate. Unlike events, which succeed one another when we read (and only when we read, for the reader is the mover), features, properties, conditions stay awhile to be named one at a time as though the roundfaced and footed alarm clock were its ticks.

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Veröffentlicht in:The Yale review 2012-01, Vol.100 (1), p.10-30
1. Verfasser: GASS, WILLIAM
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Literary criticism
Literature
Writing
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Zusammenfassung:Prose cannot describe without beginning to narrate. Unlike events, which succeed one another when we read (and only when we read, for the reader is the mover), features, properties, conditions stay awhile to be named one at a time as though the roundfaced and footed alarm clock were its ticks.
ISSN:0044-0124
1467-9736
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9736.2012.00755.x