You wrote:
>>SNIP<<
> Obviously, since I introduced the subject, I find it
interesting.
> I'm not an academic. I don't have a Ph D. In fact, my
college career
> was, shall we say, rather undistinguished. I've spent
most of my life
> as a photojournalist, a world about as far from the
academy as I
> could find.
I haven't introduced myself yet, but your missive has induced
me to
write this. I, too, am certainly NOT an ACADEMICIAN, having
only a HS
diploma, and a few years, after US Army service spent in a
NY
community college for Art. I certainly hope we don't have to
have
titles after our names to post messages here, and I've never
seen
this to be the case.
> I also write crime fiction. I like a good story with
believable
> characters written from a tough point of view, and so
on.
>
> My interest in this, isn't as academic as you may
think. My
> first book had a criminal narrator. The one I'm
working on now has a
> shifting perspective shared by four people trying to
steal the
> same money.
This may not help, but your messages made me think of the
movie DEAD
PRESIDENTS. It doesn't shift from one characters perspective
to
another, but, somehow, it makes me think of every character
as an
individual, with their own motives.
> The issue that I raised, to me at least, is one way
of examining what
> feeds a number of different writers's sense of what
the basic moral
> conflict in their stories is about - not just good
vs. evil, but what
> they think is good and what evil and why.
Again, this movie does this.
Hope this helped,
Larry
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