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Lecturer: Anna Brígido Corachán
Unit 4: PROSE
STORIES:
daily life disciplines power-laden point of view metafictional (self-reflection) NARRATIVE STRUCTURE Order of Events Logic : causality (cause/effect) - connections End: resolution – denouement Teleological progression NARRATIVE TIME:
**- Chronology
- Disruptions of linear time** flashbacks flash forwards slowing down /speeding up events simultaneous narration ellipsis digressions
NARRATOLOGY
See Gerard Genette, Narrative Discourse. An Essay in Method NARRATIVE VOICE: 1st person narrator 3rd person narrator EXTERNAL – INTERNAL RESTRICTED – UNRESTRICTED (omniscient)
Lecturer: Anna Brígido Corachán NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE or FOCALIZATION: ZERO – EXTERNAL – INTERNAL (character) SPEECH DIRECT SPEECH FREE DIRECT SPEECH INDIRECT SPEECH FREE INDIRECT SPEECH CHARACTERS
- Realism – MIMESIS
- Characters- persona
- Relation to themes
THE NOVEL
Definition Main features: LONG NARRATIVE MIMESIS FICTION CONTEMPORARY HETEROGLOSSIA READER
SHORT HISTORY OF THE NOVEL
18th Century: Literary market (libraries, illiteracy) First novels: Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (1749)
Lecturer: Anna Brígido Corachán
19th century novel: Romanticism
GOTHIC ROMANCE
Features Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) HISTORICAL NOVELS Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1819) VICTORIAN NOVELS Transformation of the literary market place Dickens’ Pickwick Papers (1836-7) Major writers: Charles Dickens, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Jane Austen, Robert Louis Stevenson… Novel vs. Romance Analysis of Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Jane Austen) Type of novel and main themes CHAPTERS 1-4: An Analysis Type of narrator and focalization WOMEN: Victorian ideal of womanhood – Domesticity MARRIAGE – FAMILY – CULTURAL HERITAGE Use of language to define main characters Reader identification
20th Century: Modernism
Definition Modernist Novel: characteristics
- individual consciousness as filter
Lecturer: Anna Brígido Corachán
- non-traditional structure and chronology
- subjective experience
- intertextuality Analysis of: ULYSSES, James Joyce (1922) (excerpt) Stream of consciousness
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
POST - WWII: POSTMODERN LITERATURE
Self-Reflexivity (Metafiction) Lack of originality (Parody, Pastiche) Fragmentation Scepticism about Grand Narratives (Enlightenment) Language – Simulations of Reality Pessimism, Spiritual / Moral Decay Real vs. Surface (Depthlessness) JOHN FOWLES (1926-2005) Main themes Novels: The Collector (1963) The Magus (1965-1977) The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) Analysis of: The Collector (1963) o Genre o Type of Narrator(s) o Structure o Features of main characters: Frederick / Miranda o Conflict(s) and main themes o Frederick Clegg as an (anti) hero The Few against the Many: Heraclitus saw mankind divided into a moral and intellectual élite (the aristoi, the good ones, not - this is a later sense - the ones of noble birth) and an unthinking, conforming mass - hoi polloi, the many [...]. One cannot deny that Heraclitus has, like some in itself innocent weapon left lying on the ground, been used by reactionaries: but it seems to me that his basic contention is biologically irrefutable
Lecturer: Anna Brígido Corachán Arrow of God (1964) A Man of the People (1966) Essays: Home and Exile – 2007 Booker Int’l Prize for Fiction
Things Fall Apart (1958)
*Themes andConflict o Traditional Igbo culture - orality o First colonial encounters *Structure *Narrator and language used *Gender Roles: Male characters: (Okonkwo, Obierika, Ikemefuna, Nwoye) Female characters: (Ekwefi, Ezinma, Chielo) *Okonkwo as a Tragic Hero *Reader Aim: rewriting African history and culture changing the simplistic, racist representation given by Conrad in Heart of Darkness
