Christopher Castellani: Objective Correlative (July 2012)

Christopher Castellani examines the usefulness of T.S. Eliot’s concept of the objective correlative for the fiction writer. Through a close reading of Peter Cameron’s novel Coral Glynn and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Castellani explores the power of the objective correlative to evoke strong emotion in the reader, as well as to seamlessly introduce back-story and necessary information into a narrative.