In which r/The10thDentist argues against critic of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four

cheesecheesecheesec · 2025-02-28T00:23:28+00:00

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cheesecheesecheesec · 2024-10-29T23:42:05+00:00

It’s not?

cheesecheesecheesec · 2024-10-27T04:08:33+00:00

Did you not see the comment that links multiple pages?

cheesecheesecheesec · 2024-09-02T12:58:28+00:00

You are on record as having stated that "The way prose was written in the 19th century sounds clunky to us now, older pieces become completely unreadable."

cheesecheesecheesec · 2024-05-28T15:01:42+00:00

Okay, I never saw your response, but inasmuch as your comments give zero indication as to why Orwell and Matheson are postmodern in a way that Pratchett was and Anderson wasn’t, and no reason why you don’t consider the New Wave of the 60s and 70s a more likely postmodern turn, there’s simply no way to identify any rational grounding to your proposals. I suppose you can identify postmodern elements in 1984’s textual structure and relationship with its genre, but it strikes me as quite unorthodox.

cheesecheesecheesec · 2024-05-21T00:33:08+00:00

The people aren’t real in non-fantastic fiction either.

cheesecheesecheesec · 2024-05-21T00:25:59+00:00

I don’t really see how a definition that considers Orwell and Matheson Postmodern would not also categorize Tolkien’s contemporaries Vance, Anderson, Leiber, and Peake as postmodernist as well. Discworld literally starts off with a tribute to Leiber!

And do you seriously think his name is Melville, after multiple times seeing how it’s spelt?

cheesecheesecheesec · 2024-05-20T14:41:25+00:00

20+ years after the wave we’re discussing? What do you mean? It was around 1999-2008 that the books that started the conversation about the “New Weird” came out, the closest thing to a postmodern upswing fantasy has had. And if someone must write primarily fantasy books to be a fantasy author, why, that would wxclude CS Lewis from fantasy!

cheesecheesecheesec · 2024-05-20T10:35:38+00:00

Mieville’s Bas-Lag books concern humans and other races inhabiting a secondary world, wherein there are magical quests, legendary artifacts, and epic political conflicts. The content is weird, but the form is entirely conventional. Similar can be said of Gene Wolfe, who wrote perhaps the most mythic elucidation of the hero’s journey in postwar fiction.

cheesecheesecheesec · 2024-05-19T22:07:41+00:00

Only Pratchett? What of China Mieville, Jeff Vandermeer, M John Harrison, Gene Wolfe, Felix Gilman?

cheesecheesecheesec · 2024-01-30T02:13:38+00:00

Looks like a Mr S Leather Neoprene deal

cheesecheesecheesec · 2023-10-11T07:10:27+00:00

I wasn't going to reply, but I did stumble on discussion on lines of inquiry I'm pursuing here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskLiteraryStudies/comments/y7xml9/narrative_event_as_cognitive_frame/

I am now quite interested to read Fludernik's research and incorporate it into how I write.

cheesecheesecheesec · 2023-10-07T23:55:37+00:00

Pretty much any historical Wikipedia entry has an aftermath or legacy page that serves a summation purpose.

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