Literature

Cold Literature: Still Writing Alone, After the Prize

"Without isms" does not mean without a position; it means refusing to let any ism speak in your place.

Literature

Person and Pronoun in Soul Mountain: How "You," "I" and "He" Stage a Flight

A novel with no protagonist splits a single fleeing consciousness across three pronouns.

Literature

The Theatre of One: Gao Xingjian's Total Theatre and the Threefold Actor

From The Bus Stop to Snow in August, Gao Xingjian set out to revive the very theatricality that realism had flattened.