It is upon the evidence of this fact, indeed, that the admirable pedagogical method, known as maieutic, is founded. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Which is to say, how maieutic reflectiveness is literonormative. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
Is the maieutic approach really dominant, or is it just one of many now?. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
As I say, I include reflective realism in this as the mimesis of mind, and place maieutic fiction as a logical end-point of that. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
That maieutic reflectiveness is no more literanormative than a pottery hobby would be heteronormative because a few firemen like making clay ashtrays in between being all masculine. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
In maieutic fiction, the protagonist is faced with a problem that requires a reflective reevaluation of self, with resolution achieved not by action but by realisation, in an epiphany that is not gnosis but rather logos. From Wordnik.com. [On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction] Reference
The method is, in one of his favorite words, maieutic, from the Greek term for midwifery, like that of his beloved model Socrates, who in his questioning style sought to elicit his auditors 'ideas rather than impose his own. From Wordnik.com. [On 'The Seducer's Diary'] Reference
Since Ms. Szladits had an important part in publishing these deleted sections in Valerie Eliot's 1971 edition of her husband's manuscripts, I had assumed that she shared the prevailing academic view that Pound's maieutic hand had been a happy one. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Land Without Pound] Reference
Like “masculine” being tied to a recasting of mean-assed belligerence as red-blooded vigour, JM’s pointing to how “literary” is tied to a recasting of maieutic reflectiveness as mimetic relevance. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
This is partly why, I think, we’ve ended up discussing this stuff rather than a quite interesting idea, in JM’s original post, that maieutic fiction is less functional for some readers than the quirks of strange fiction. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
I’m guessing it’s maieutic fiction, reflective realism that sets up a problem (but a real one, you know), faces it (but actually rather than “ostensibly”,) and doesn’t, as far as he’s concerned, “pull punches”. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
I think you could make a case that reflective realism was literanormative in the latter half of the 20th century, and that the maieutic fiction born of it doesn’t have to be the bulk of “literary” fiction if it’s considered the peak. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
Truth be told, I don’t think this metanarrative even needs to be seen as anything more than a story of the developing awareness and acceptance of how writers from the start of the 20th century on reintroduced diegesis by the back door in a complete subversion of a petit bourgeois and ultimately crude philistine idea that “proper” fiction was not just mimetic to the core but downright maieutic. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
But their maieutic ingenuity was vain. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
Therefore he called his method the "maieutic" or "obstetric" art. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
Hal’s post, I believe, is here: http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-mimetic-and-maieutic-fiction.html and in it he notes. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
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