lifeness

• “LANG: But it has dire consequences on a planet where flexibility and kind of lifeness are really the keys.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2009

• “Is realism, "lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature?”

  Archive 2008-12-01

• “Wood's extolling of "lifeness" and character as key to "how fiction works" has resulted in much red-flagged response from those who favour avant garde experimentalism.”

  Archive 2008-12-01

• “The idea suggests the possibility of a perfect transmission from world to work, from life to "lifeness," as if the artistic medium could function like a clear pane of glass.”

  Powell's Books: Overview

• “… the possibility of a perfect transmission from world to work, from life to "lifeness," as if the artistic medium could function like a clear pane of glass.”

  A conversation with William Deresiewicz’s article in The Nation…Following James Wood into the Desert…

• “lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature?”

  Culture | guardian.co.uk

• “These child glimpses are of other-worldness, of other-lifeness, of things that you had never seen in this particular world of your particular life.”

  Chapter 1

• “R.I.P. MCS (referring to the low-lifeness and immaturity that infests recently)”

  Dermatographic urticaria | My[confined]Space

• “Log in to Reply boxzor (UID#2398) on September 5th, 2009 at 5: 46 am serious irony, does casemods not realize that he is inface this “low-lifeness and immaturity” of which he speaks?”

  Dermatographic urticaria | My[confined]Space

• “Even the most unrealistic works of fiction, Wood claims, owe a debt to realism, because the emotional ‘truth’ of any story — what Wood refers to as ‘lifeness’ — results from its likeness, literal or metaphorical, to real life.”

  Read this Superb Review of How Fiction Works

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