Shadow Play: Dreams, Visions, and Hallucinations in Fiction
Author Tim Weed discusses how fiction as a medium differs from other narrative arts like film and television.
Author Tim Weed discusses how fiction as a medium differs from other narrative arts like film and television.
Some of the most complex and weighty signifiers are brand names, celebrity names, clichés, and propagandist phrases like “axis of evil.” These categories overlap: celebrity names are brand names, brand names are propaganda, propaganda is cliché, etc. “Axis of evil” is a place to start because of its obviousness. No educated person I have met can vocalize this phrase without quotation marks implicit in the vocal texture. What do these quotation marks mean? I think they mean we don’t wish anyone to think we are complicit with the ideology behind the phrase. We use quotation marks to indicate awareness of […]
