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On the calculation of volume

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By David McCooey
| Open Forum
We tend to think of repetition, especially with regard to novels and other media, in negative terms. To say a work is formulaic or cliched is to say that it repeats exhausted tropes and plots. But repetition is central to art. Tradition, character, genre and style are all types of repetition. Repetition is at the heart of various literary forms and modes.
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Shipwrecked in a time loop: Solvej Balle’s ‘On the Calculation of Volume’ plays a long game

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By David McCooey
| Scroll.in Verified
We tend to think of repetition, especially with regard to novels and other media, in negative terms. To say a work is formulaic or cliched is to say that it repeats exhausted tropes and plots. But repetition is central to art. Tradition, character, genre and style are all types of repetition. Repetition is at the heart of various literary forms and modes.
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Shipwrecked in a time-loop – Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume plays a long game

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By David McCooey
| Inkl
On the Calculation of Volume IV – Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (Faber) The genre at play in On the Calculation of Volume, by the Danish writer Solvej Balle, is the time-loop narrative, in which a period of time is repeated, usually more than once, leading the protagonist to search for a way to return to “normal” time.
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