#JAMES WOOD, HOW FICTION WORKS#
Put it another way: plot is reading, form is literary criticism. Form is what we are left with when plot is no longer manipulating us, but when we - as readers, as critics — are manipulating plot.

we modify our immediate experience of plot (our reading experience) by our later experiences of form (our post hoc literary-critical experience): reading for significance is always a negotiation between our excited discovery of the work and our comprehension of the work after the excitements of discovery have faded a bit.

Plot is what is happening; form is what happened.

FORM 102,103,104
摘于07/17/2026 #分别善恶知识树上的果子#