As It Were: 17 asemic stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781452865102)

"As it were" is a collection of seventeen non-verbal compositions that visually explore the story as a form. Considering literary forms, one sees that a poem resides in a shape that is particular to it and inviolable. A novel, however, exists in many pages that all look alike. A story occupies a limited enclosure with a consistent though malleable shape. Each story in this collection uses a different system of generators, each uses its own language. Like drawing, writing is visual and gestural, but with different constraints. Without the force of semantic content holding one's attention in a specific mode to the page, the differences between drawing and writing begin to soften and the act of looking and the act of reading begin to merge.

Author: Rosaire Appel
ISBN-10: 1452865108
ISBN-13: 9781452865102
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2010
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.51d