Entries tagged as Prose
The Adventure of the Mystery Machine with the Suspicious Odour (Sherlock Holmes pt.2)
Holmes is the ultimate Victorian-Era Scooby-Doo, unmasking the irrational and metaphysical in order to expose the creepy-old-janitor-under-the-werewolf-mask of the coherent, objective world. More...
Why read? Why write? Why Literature?
It is in the plurality of meaning that, regarding both the ‘construction’ of reality and the conventions of mimetic (realist / readerly) literature, Literature assumes…
More...The Adventure of the Ten-Foot Blue Dudes (Sherlock Holmes pt.1)
The Holmes stories are defined by their narrative structure, and a necessary self-referential mechanic that is built into every facet of the tale. At every level these short stories operate as narratives in a state of flux. More...
Swedenborg’s Oven: Head number Five – The 6th of April 1744.
As you may well remember from previous posts I have been waiting for Emanuel Swedenborg’s Journal of Dreams to be returned to the…
More...a sporadic and brief instance of critical fiction
There is no primal scream without the sun, the deep crevice of the earth, Heraclitus’ flowing waters. The river runs its course: “We step and do not step into the same river, we are and we are not”. More...
Ryszard Kapuscinski – Journalist
Much controversy has surrounded a new biography of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007) which alleges that huge swathes of his reportage were made-up. Defences have…
More...Prose Poets
As a frustrated poet myself, I am always intrigued to see when famous writers of prose fiction choose to explore the verse form, and perhaps one of the most surprising transitions from one medium to the other is seen in the work of Ernest Hemingway. More...
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