Methodology

Resistance-Testimony Methodology

A method for reading any text attentively, listening for the Logos speaking through a work even when the author resists Him — and for where a narrative's own logic ends up testifying to more than its stated worldview allows.

Survey & Rebuttal The Isms Examined Eight major schools of literary criticism, each read against this method at the exact point its own vocabulary runs out. Read → How It Works The Process The five movements of the method, from mapping the surface of a text to naming what it testifies to despite itself. Read → Vocabulary Glossary of Terms Worldview Disclosure, Borrowed Moral Capital, Imago Dei, The Grotesque, and the rest of the working vocabulary. Read → Case Study The Method Applied Wells, Ellison, and Matheson compared — three texts, three ways of removing a condition of human existence. Read →

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In Practice Testimony Through Confession Ellison — Invisible Man Resistance Read Against Itself Wells — The Wellsian Universe Testimony Through Wonder Matheson — The Incredible Shrinking Man
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