tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355709063431328024.post4494940612495190846..comments2023-09-13T04:03:04.292-07:00Comments on Cinema Democratica: On CharacterizationDave O'Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05614887143518461047noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355709063431328024.post-28661076775750138682011-05-05T23:02:48.700-07:002011-05-05T23:02:48.700-07:00Wow -- thank you so much for your warm feedback. I...Wow -- thank you so much for your warm feedback. I'll try to post a follow-up in these pages, later in the summer, with an update as to how things are going.Dave O'Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05614887143518461047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355709063431328024.post-47802971827200319382011-05-05T16:43:06.872-07:002011-05-05T16:43:06.872-07:00This piece resonates with TS Eliot's "Tra...This piece resonates with TS Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent." The piece shows self-awareness and its place within the narrative tradition: Todorov could fit it within his scheme of narratology. As the not-yet-dead author interacts with the reader, the narrative goes beyond the set pieces of structuralist fiction (as in Strauss, Propp, Greimas--even in Barthes' structuralist mode, whom I love) to a more American post-modern understanding of relationships and motivations.<br /><br />As meta-criticism, I find this piece first rate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com