Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imperfect understanding of the transference relationship from the internal inconsistencies and shifts in tone of the writing. And in "Literature and Social Theory," Marcus draws out the connection between a certain style of narration and the presence of a functionalist, organicist social theory in George Eliot's fiction. By making this connection, Marcus was able to uncover the roots of both devices in a need to repress consciousness of social and sexual conflict, an insight which carries over to similar social theories in our own time, and was also able to resolve a misunderstood plot in one of her stories...
...program included a dinner for the descendants of inventor Alexander Graham Bell and of his assistant, Thomas Watson. An address by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke on "Communications in the Second Century of the Telephone" and a stamp commemoration also highlighted the event...
...understand Hailey, who is arguably the most popular writer of fiction in America today, it is best to shed any ideas of him as an artist who is making a creative progression from work to work. Rather, he is a writer who has hit upon a formula that has several great advantages and can be infinitely repeated. (I'm pulling for him to write his next opus about the government bureaucracy, to be entitled State, but I can also see universities, law firms, daily newspapers, the motion picture industry and shipping companies as fertile territory...
...know. Bailey's first initial stands for Fame, Fortune and Fiction...
...Jewish writer, Howe said, neither preserves the "religious mysticism and enthusiasm" of his forebears, no possesses firm roots in American culture. Such an absence of place, he added, cripples the writer of fiction, but wonderfully serves the Jewish poet...