Break every rule
Subtitle: essays on language, longing, and moments of desire
By: Carole Maso
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781582430638
Subjects: Essays
Description: "At the core of these essays is Maso's love of language and her belief in its limitless capacity to arouse and liberate the human spirit. She denounces the formulaic novel with its central character, plot, and stiff attention to chronology, choosing instead to center her writing around desire and emotion.

Language, Maso declares, is incarnate, and has been obscured by prevailing notions of "literature." Now is the time, Maso urges, for a kind of language revolution, in which women, gays and lesbians, and people of color, "make their own shapes and sounds.""--BOOK JACKET.