{"product_id":"meander-spiral-explode-design-and-pattern-in-narrative-9781948226134","title":"Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, original book about narrative is our new Aristotle.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --Edmund White, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" A] boundlessly inventive look at narrative form . . . filled with clarity and wit, underlain with formidable erudition.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs 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?\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW. G. Sebald's \u003ci\u003eEmigrants\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Garc a M rquez, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Robison.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeander, Spiral, Explode\u003c\/i\u003e 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 It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let's leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation.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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948226134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jane Alison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36672596705436,"sku":"9781948226134","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_53f66b1c-9c67-44d5-8708-7705b4ff3322.jpg?v=1603928007","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/meander-spiral-explode-design-and-pattern-in-narrative-9781948226134","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}