In the best fiction, Wood argues, the author submerges himself utterly in his characters, so that no image or idea surfaces in the text that would not occur naturally to them.
well that is interesting. sure there is something to say for that: makes integrity more likely? Integrity, what have you.
--so George Eliot in Middlemarch, Wood, would you say her pronouncements are authorial insertions? (vs: could be considered to touch the consciousness of the character we are with?)--
I guess though that we don't need just one kind of fiction. one kind of story! for goodness' sake. why not have a voice that is not that of one of the presented characters? (well because the author is a pompous food snob who offends - right - but otherwise).
these critics who say Aesthetics Aesthetics There is Only the One G-d. (Beauty).
Wood: "The only success is aesthetic, and the 'culture' will never validate aesthetic success, will never 'engage' with that."
Even Curtis White trying to say something positive about What Is Art. sounds...? well, what are they talking about? I guess that's my dislike for the b-g words Beauty Power -? Justice is ok, seems to mean. so... they sound snobby I guess, without sounding sharp. Curtis White when he's sharp well I don't mind if he is harsh. Anger I like. I don't like what?