Tuesday, September 15, 2009

What's form?

To be honest, I'm not really sure what form is. I think it's the style of writing an author chooses, I think it's more than the 5-paragraph approach and more than just basic sentence construction. It's got to be more than all that.

But it is the way of arranging and placement. It means more when we start talking about animations than just typed literature.

Form and relation to social norms...I guess there is a relationship there only because to be taken seriously by a wide audience an artist has to pick a socially acceptable form. It happens all the time in art, but this is the first time I'm considering it in literature. It means something different in this case, but it still means something. To write a stream of consciousness piece is a big risk...to write a story that isn't a narrative again is a big risk.

An aggressive form appears to society as an aggressive person: violent, radical, etc. I know that in Toni Morrison's novels, the sections where letters are pushed together with no punctuation or when they are capitalized, repeated, etc, it is supposed to invoke an emotion. It is a change in form and a change in thought.

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