Word: congruous
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...novels, “any phrasing similarities between her works and mine were completely unintentional and unconscious.”But a judicious examination of the evidence thus far does not bode well for Viswanathan’s claim. This is more than merely an accident of two congruous organic creations. The novels include similar dialogue, sentence structure, and word choice. Some passages appear nearly verbatim with minor tweaks. (For instance, compare McCafferty’s “four major department stores and 170 specialty shops later” to Viswanathan’s “five department...
...division has only recently developed. “Until the late nineteenth century,” Wood notes, “criticism was done by writers…[Henry] James, [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge…there’s a reason why James’s criticisms seem congruous with his novels. I don’t think there’s much difference, in James’s mind, between writing a novel and writing a book [of criticism...