The Eckleburg Workshops

CHIAROSCURO HOVHANESS YAKAMOCHI | Prelude

Contrasting light and shade. Originally applied to painting, the term is used in the criticism of various literary forms involving the contrast of light and darkness, as in much of Hawthorne's and Nabokov's fiction and in Faulkner's Light in August. Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow involves complex interplay of black and ... Read More
The Eckleburg Workshops

Writing Chiaroscuro

Contrasting light and shade. Originally applied to painting, the term is used in the criticism of various literary forms involving the contrast of light and darkness, as in much of Hawthorne's and Nabokov's fiction and in Faulkner's Light in August. Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow involves complex interplay of black and ... Read More