Dec 30, 2009

Three Farmers on Their Way To a Dance | Techniques

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance consists of multiple texts, all interconnected historically. Each set of three chapters is arranged so that the first chapter focuses on the main narrative frame, the story of the three farmers and eventually of Peter Mays. The second chapter is an historical or philosophical essay that reflects the broader social context within which the narrative occurs. The third chapter focuses on a significant historical figure who. like Henry Ford, had an effect on the development of twentieth-Modernism, Powers approaches time with a simultaneity that...