Tired of formulaic fiction? This novel does not pander to the reader.
Lust & Philosophy in Chinese:
Latest Essays on China- The ventriloquist’s dilemma: Anglo travelogues of China
- The Chinese art of noise
- Irreducible, like the country itself: China books I have reviewed for 2012
- How to have fun in China’s disposable cities
- The Chinese university: A primer for prospective foreign teachers
- The poverty of the institutional imagination: The case of Beijing’s moats and canals
- Questioning China’s “5,000 years” master trope
- Latest Fiction on China
- Restaurant time warp. A short story
- Paradox. A short story
- A little accident. A short story
- What you know, you know. A short story
- The mean and the angry. A short story
- The mistress. A short story
- There she blows! A short story
- Incident at Dongwuyuan Fuzhuang Shichang. A short story
- iProstitution. A short story
- Latest Miscellania
- Philip Glass and Tan Dun
- Isham Cook’s blog: 2012 in review
- Multiply, cascade, explode: A theory of literary fiction
- A modest proposal regarding sex work: Why all sex should be paid for
- A Shakespeare sex-and-violence starter kit
- Theatrics of Japanese Noh, Kabuki, and the mixed-bathing Onsen
- The high priests of medicine
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Multiply, cascade, explode: A theory of literary fiction
1. Texture Let’s take Franz Kafka as a starting point for doing literary analysis. Kafka attracts interest for a host of qualities: the originality of his macabre vision, his premonitions of totalitarian state bureaucracy, his inimitable dreamlike style. These qualities … Continue reading
