Bitter experience tells you that nothing is more testing for any writer, however distinguished, than to recast familiar material in a new form.
But in "The Executioner's Song," Mr. Mailer recast this material in what was for him a new impersonal voice that rendered the thoughts of his characters in a style partly drawn from their own way of talking.
So, how do we portray this transition within Endler's model as it has been recast for material culture?
To conceptualize, for Rickert, is to recast the materials delivered immediately by the senses into a conceptual form.
The result is "La Grande Therese: The Greatest Scandal of the Century," which recasts the Humbert material from Spurling's "Unknown Matisse" into an enticing historical fable.
All this arm waving appears in service of recasting centuries-old material for a modern sensibility in the most vulgar way possible.
The art is about the basic stuff of sculpture, isolated and recast: mass, weight, volume, material.
He did not hire ciphers, but comparable virtuosi such as the pianist Dave Kikowski, who would help him add complexities and ambiguities to familiar material and recast it.
And, as Mark Steyn once pointed out, comparing what Bart did with Dickens to what Disney did with Kipling's Jungle Book, the composer took the source material and recast it in another form, consistent in its own tone.
But she persisted — less interested, she later said, in the money than in the prestige of authorship — and when Virginia Kirkus, an editor of children's books at Harper & Brothers, received a new version of the material, now recast as a novel aimed at readers between the ages of eight and twelve, she bought it.
