ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Typification, Unreliable Narrator, Free Indirect Speech
22 Jan 2017
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The relationship between fact and fiction is not oppositional, but interactive, and mutually productive. Fiction gives cultural life to facts makes them available to perception, thought, experience. Fiction gives shape to various understandings of things that happen, don"t happen, might happen or might have happened in human experience mode of representation. Fiction: aims to fracture truth in a purposeful and pleasing way . Plot: the movement of a story, the temporal organization of events. Life is brought under control, but asked to perform tricks. Obstacles to movement, productive tension (when 2 elements of a story are working against one another) The way things are represented is always slanted. Separate from an objective view of the world. Character: agents of the story; can be composed and animated. Defining markers, such as psychology (how they think) function (what they do) and social context (where they are from) Typification: character is nothing more than an example (stereotypical)
