Future>Fiction

Chat GPT. I know, I know but stay with me. Depending on when you're reading this we may still be in the middle of our own existential crisis or, perhaps, robots will have taken over the world using information that we have given them freely. Hard to know. The internet will tell you (so it... Continue Reading →

When is a door not a door?

When it's a metaphor. We all know a good one when we see it. Something that evokes a feeling or a sensation without a drawn-out description. We also know a bad one when we read it. Something that pulls us out of the moment and away from the character. Some novels are overloaded with them,... Continue Reading →

Intertextuality

Or when something is related to something that is already written. The concept of intertextuality suggests that all works of literature are a derivation of an existing work of literature which in turns suggests that nothing is really new. The original definition of intertextuality was coined by a French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the 1960s.... Continue Reading →

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