Galloway, Alexander R., Thacker, Eugene & Wark, McKenzie. New York: Oxford University Press.īuford, Bill. Anxiety of influence: A theory of poetry. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īloom, Harold. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. In order to try to offer a plausible contextual background to the presence of medialities, I mention Wolff’s engagement in an attempt to revive realist poetics (what has been termed “Dirty Realism”), but end up suggesting that a deeper meaning of the protagonist’s childhood memory has to do with the unexpectedness of unmediated presence. The strange musicality inherent in the faulty grammar of a child in the critic’s childhood carries the symbolic weight of the story. In this chapter, I attempt to demonstrate that sound and music (surprisingly perhaps, in a short story about a literary critic), actually play the leading roles in the text. However, when focusing on the presence and function of medialities in the text, another plot becomes visible. Tobias Wolff’s short story “Bullet in the Brain,” a deeply ironic version of a near-death experience, can be read as a modernized version of Hemingway’s “The Killers,” and it has also been read as an optimistic-but at the same time sentimental-tale about the unspoiled roots of a cynical critic.
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