But one can easily cite writers who tell their stories in
this sort of style but who aren't hb writers -- Raymond
Carver, for example, whose selected short stories I just
recently finished.
I think the hb approach emerges at the confluence of a
variety of forces. The characteristic hb style you speak
about is very important, no doubt about it, but I don't think
it's the *only* factor.
doug
--- pabergin <
pabergin@gte.net> wrote:
> The distinguishing trait of the style of writing
I
> consider HB (or American
> Naturalism, if we want to get terribly Ivy about
it)
> is a straight-ahead
> sort of storytelling which may be EMBELLISHED
by
> such poeticism, but which
> is never SOFTENED by the sort of
overqualification
> (and narrative hesitancy)
> that automatically comes with the overuse
of
> adjectives and adverbs or
> irrelevant flights of God-am-I-a-great-writer
fancy,
> something for which I
> assume you would not indict either Ray C. or Ross
M.
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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