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I just finished Victor Shlovsky’s “Art as Technique” (1917)—which I’ve seen referenced a lot but never read!—and I love his beautiful description of what poetic language does. Whereas practical language is meant to communicate as efficiently and cleanly as possible, poetic language is actually meant to slow us down—to force us out of our usual habi... See more
Celine Nguyensubstack.comDashiel Hammett’s The Glass Key poses different dilemmas when read as literature or as a popular detective story.
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
all art is a message, we want to communicate something but maybe not an entirely graspable something, maybe there’s a kind of sense only non-sense can convey; so that the poem becomes not just a message but an object of contemplation, of devotion even, inexhaustible. It had been my whole life, puzzling over phrases, trying to account for the unacco
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