Notes on Nostos: Vector Literature in the Vector Medium
David M. Berry The "Development Guide" for Nostos "Welcome to my Island," Calypso. "To the first writers who spoke against the old style of authoritative rhetoric, the problem of the author's voice in fiction was extremely complicated. [Henry] James's Prefaces, for example, those shrewd and indispensable explorations into the writer's craft offer no easy reduction of technique to a simple dichotomy of telling versus showing, no pat rejection of all but James's own methods. And, in fact, James's own methods were surprisingly varied. The persistent enemy for James was intellectual and artistic sloth, not any particular way of telling or showing a story," Wayne C. Booth "The only law that binds the novelist throughout, whatever course he is pursuing, is the need to be consistent on some plan, to follow the principle he has adopted," Percy Lubbock Over the past six weeks I have been experimenting with a computable literary arte...
