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- noun The state or quality of being
crafted .
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Perhaps the passage of time does allow us to see more clearly the craftedness of some works of art that at first seemed simply model-breaking, but ultimately I see no conflict between innovation in poetry or fiction and the skillful construction of individual poems, plays, short stories, or novels.
Postmodernism 2010
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Anyway, in addition to this critique of the story's craftedness, a valuation which is explicitly subjective is placed on the plausibility of character relationships.
How Not to be a Writer Hal Duncan 2009
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Anyway, in addition to this critique of the story's craftedness, a valuation which is explicitly subjective is placed on the plausibility of character relationships.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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I imagine also that as your readership exploded your self-consciousness and craftedness increased.
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I imagine also that as your readership exploded your self-consciousness and craftedness increased.
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You can see in the characters this sort of hand-craftedness to them, like they each have their own quirks.
Destructoid 2010
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Perhaps the passage of time does allow us to see more clearly the craftedness of some works of art that at first seemed simply model-breaking, but ultimately I see no conflict between innovation in poetry or fiction and the skillful construction of individual poems, plays, short stories, or novels.
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Partly this is because each line in Marlatt’s work reverberates with a historical/emotional pulse, not unlike a Woolfian line, while a line from Ernaux becomes brittle, snaps under its own craftedness not craftiness, though what I want to suggest is the attention to thinking, not “knowing”.
Archive 2006-08-01 Lemon Hound 2006
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Partly this is because each line in Marlatt’s work reverberates with a historical/emotional pulse, not unlike a Woolfian line, while a line from Ernaux becomes brittle, snaps under its own craftedness not craftiness, though what I want to suggest is the attention to thinking, not “knowing”.
Notes toward an essay on Daphne Marlatt Lemon Hound 2006
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