House of Leaves in print and the Ring in film being exemplars
House of Leaves in print and the Ring in film being exemplars
In Postmodernism literature it is called Audience surrogate.Originally Posted by tantric
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ive_techniques
A parallel story follows Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist of more recent times assigned the monumental task of piecing together the disparate fragments of Kennedy's death. Branch concludes that the effort will be never-ending and the whole truth ultimately unknowable. Branch is an example of the reader appearing in the novel itself, one of the postmodern phenomena that marks DeLillo's work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(novel)
Last edited by Red Terror; 06-05-2017 at 01:17 PM.
There has never been a single, great revolution in history without civil war. --- Vladimir Lenin
There are decades when nothing happens and then there are weeks when decades happen. --- Vladimir Lenin
Thanks for the useful link, RT.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote