Just for the Record

Terrance Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Thu May 11 08:41:48 CDT 2000



Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> True. My next question here may sound a little radical but would it be
> feasible at this stage of our scientific knowledge of Narrative Language
> to devise an objective classification system--a Minnesota Multiphasic
> Personality Inventory for Fiction as it were? Let's start trying to think
> up suitable variables. My first suggestion would be something I picked up
> from the Wallace List called anti-confluentuality, meaning the degree to
> which various characters and plotlines lack relationship to each other.
> 
>                         P.

OK, but no Anties, Ities, Isms, or " fill in the blanks ", 
OK?



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