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Part of the book: Techniques of Solipsism

Terence John Rogers

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 1

Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  As one reads Storm’s stories, one becomes increasingly aware of certain distinctive and fairly consistent qualities of style and narrative technique; one comes to accept and expect these qualities, and in the end they are indissolubly linked with the image of Storm which one retains. The fact that they are Storm’s techniques is, of course, one thing that draws them together and makes them of a piece in the mind; but there is the sense of another denominator between them, a unity of function which is not immediately clear. They seem to complement each other and to serve some common end, but one isn’t quite sure how they do it or what the end is. External evidence is not much help: there is no specific discussion of the problem in the correspondence or theoretical writings, and Storm’s critics have not, to the best of my knowledge, arrived at any satisfactory explanation. Note: The endnotes to Part II are in the end matter of the book, not in this PDF.

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