Monday, September 10, 2012

Hard cases …

… How to Do Things with Fictions by Joshua Landy - review | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

His examples come from "five countries, and two and a half millennia": Plato's Gorgias andSymposium, Mark's gospel, Chaucer'sCanterbury Tales, a sonnet by Mallarmé, and the novel trilogy of Molloy, Malone Dies andThe Unnamable by Beckett. With a nod to JL Austin, Landy dubs these works "formative fictions", because they form and shape the reader by incorporating lessons about reading itself.

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