30 Terms
Contributors in Fiction
Fiction
The storey of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel
Literature; Fiction
Written by David Wroblewski, ''The storey of Edgar Sawtelle,'' is a modern rendition of Shakepeare's ''Hamlet''. The protagonist, Edgar, is a mute boy who grows up on a farm in Wisconsin. After his ...
Anti-novel
Literature; Fiction
A form of experimental fiction that dispenses with certain traditional elements of novel-writing like the analysis of characters' states of mind or the unfolding of a sequential plot.
Convapod
Literature; Fiction
In Hubtrans, a contraction of "convalescent pod," a medical device used for automated post-procedural (such as surgery) care, containing a versatile monitoring and analysis processor that can be ...
The Rum Diary
Literature; Fiction
Is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson that was written in the early 1960's but was not published until 1998. The storey involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the 1950s, ...
Destination
Literature; Fiction
The emotional endpoint of a story: where the author's intent coincides and rings with the action in the story, where the experiential contract between writer and reader is fulfilled. The author sets ...
Disengage
Literature; Fiction
A reader who is not paying close attention to the text is disengaged. Offstage action or a poorly-realized fictional dream disengage the reader: he skips or skims sentences, paragraphs, pages or ...
Easter egg
Literature; Fiction
Adapted from computer programming, a specialised form of cookie in which the author 'hides' some surprise, not germane to the storey (indeed, often irrelevant or irreverent), deep within the text, to ...
