tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post112301940765891922..comments2024-03-18T16:55:31.971+00:00Comments on This Space: Life: a reading experienceStephen Mitchelmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1123052636431783082005-08-03T08:03:00.000+01:002005-08-03T08:03:00.000+01:00You are right. But the critics dialogue makes it s...You are right. But the critics dialogue makes it seem like Fiction is some given literary form, when it is historically a refined function of language itself. Language has a material, transhistorical being, and the writer fashions his work always in the present out of what he gets to work with. Communication is entirely a secondary effect, no matter how intellectuals try to abstractly frame it. Or explain their preferences.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com