Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advanced degree without attending the university. He is not eligible for parole until 1976, and he cannot even get to a class unless he can convince the authorities that "I am not the wild man I once appeared to be." To do that, he may figure that the best method is a loud toot on the horn...
...concerned, they are at the wrong end of the stick. The trick is not to find the mythic elements in everyday reality but to go straight to the myths themselves to find the real people inside the heroic shells. This is Barth's method in Dunyazadiad and the other two novellas, as well Perseid and Bellerophoniad...
Unable to complete the script himself, Pierre calls in a writer-housepainter friend Paul (Jacques Denis) to collaborate. But the two disagree on an approach to the subject. Where Pierre decides that the proper method of attack is an exhaustive study of the factual background, Paul insists on the primacy of the imagination. As compromise, they divide the work, the one conducting interviews and research, the other writing his version solely from imaginative inspiration...
...progressive entanglement of the three figures--they become inseparable friends a la Jules et Jim--makes the original writing project more and more problematic until it is abandoned altogether. At this point, the focus shifts entirely to the characters themselves. But here, as always. Tanner's method depends on calculated understatement, and the complex triangle of interrelationships is always submerged, never obtrusive...
This is the core of Tanner's method, to tease up a raft of dramatic possibilities and leave them suggestively unresolved. Events are never permitted to reach any sort of well-defined conclusion, and by the end of the film, the initial themes and dramatic situations have all been discarded What remains is the figure of Rosemonde herself. A poor working girl of rural origin she has little formal education and no political consciousness. She likes rock music and sex and has a poster on the Beatles on her wall. What she has most importantly, though are all those characteristics...