ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture : 1A03 Day 11.docx
25 Feb 2013
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How words hold together and how they are used. Words both follow one another and are arranged in relation to each other. Poetry is to prose what short fiction is to the novel. The experience of a novel is essentially cumulative; built up in stages. The narrative arc is called a mythos, and there are four individual mythoi, each of which describes the particular way in which the narrative unfolds. Directions of unfolding (expressing desire or anxiety: comedy (unification, rebirth, revolution, tragedy (fragmentation, limitation, necessity, romance (trial, journey, quest) Don"t ask: where is this going? but: what do i see? . Analogy: painting (think of it like analysing a painting) There is something at the centre that captures our attention that becomes the unifying principle of the narrative. Stitching pieces together so the idea of the whole is played out. This is not to say that novels don"t involve cycles, turnings back at the end, meanderings, patterns.
