Scone: Yet another academic farce

From Chapter 13: During manuscript production, we (Greer and I) submitted a survey to a valid sample of critical theorists around the country on allowed narrative endings. We wanted to be sure "Scone" met current theoretical standards given that all fiction is actually written for the reductionist analysis. We also needed to contact a specialist on subtext to determine if "Scone" had sufficient metaphoric content, sufficient thematic development, and sufficient thing density, symbols, allusions, irony, and onomatopoeia. After all, we all know that Shakespeare wrote first for the scholars and critics and theorists.

Given that this is an academic farce, surveying MFA writing program administrators on the sufficiency of angst in "Scone" seemed necessary given only one use of the word "angst," one dead character, and others that suffered slings and arrows. We also consulted other experts on end punctuation, embedded clause use, trauma theory, new historicism, old historicism, modernism, post-modernism, pre-modernism, pre-post-modernism, ecofeminist theory, Marxist theory, digital theory--especially on the digital negation of conclusion in electronic narrative wherein revision never ends. . . .