Technique as Discovery---- Mark Schorer

Technique as Discovery--Criticism & Theory

Dr. S. Sree Kumar

Mark Schorer believes that technique is the means by which the writer's experience, which is his subject matter, compels him to attend to it; technique is the only means he has of discovering, exploring, developing his subject, of conveying its meaning, and, finally, of evaluating it. Thus, when we speak of technique we speak of nearly everything.

Schorer is very clear from the beginning of the article that only if we apply technique to the subject matter of the novel ,only then it can be called art.Otherwise it is just social experience .“The difference between content, or experience, and achieved content, or art, is technique."
Schorer takes three novelists—H.G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce—as examples to prove his point.

H.G. Wells