Event Title
Dangerous Writing: The Death of Fear
Presentation Type
Oral and/or Visual Presentation
Presenter Major(s)
English
Mentor Information
Dr. D. Ihrman
Department
English
Location
Kirkhof Center 2215
Start Date
10-4-2013 12:00 AM
End Date
10-4-2013 12:00 AM
Keywords
Information, Innovation, and Technology, Creativity/ Innovation, Culture, Media, U.S. Diversity
Abstract
In American literature, ideas of genre and the Novel draw into question the direction of literary construction. With electronic texts eliminating the tangiblity of paper in the ideas of authors, and the prevalence of textual struggle to portray a post-generic world, the next movement must inevitably face the readers that will keep it alive. Though text has evolved from oral traditions of storytelling, literature must respond to movements of the past. Through works by Amy Hempel and Chuck Palahniuk, and Tom Spanbauer's methods of writing instruction, a new movement reveals the philosophy behind a growing, generic trend. Dangerous Writing reveals the most critical element of reading: the emotions of the reader. In a sensual appeal, the genre addresses the duality of reader's thoughts and feelings. By deconstructing the elements in several works by authors of this movement, a new access to the Novel's readerly appeal is discovered in response to American literary Post-Modernism.
Dangerous Writing: The Death of Fear
Kirkhof Center 2215
In American literature, ideas of genre and the Novel draw into question the direction of literary construction. With electronic texts eliminating the tangiblity of paper in the ideas of authors, and the prevalence of textual struggle to portray a post-generic world, the next movement must inevitably face the readers that will keep it alive. Though text has evolved from oral traditions of storytelling, literature must respond to movements of the past. Through works by Amy Hempel and Chuck Palahniuk, and Tom Spanbauer's methods of writing instruction, a new movement reveals the philosophy behind a growing, generic trend. Dangerous Writing reveals the most critical element of reading: the emotions of the reader. In a sensual appeal, the genre addresses the duality of reader's thoughts and feelings. By deconstructing the elements in several works by authors of this movement, a new access to the Novel's readerly appeal is discovered in response to American literary Post-Modernism.