ENG 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Russian Formalism, Station Eleven, Nonlinear Narrative
29 Dec 2016
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Key points: defamiliarization is, in one theorist"s view, the purpose of art. Station eleven: se employs a number of literary techniques, allegory. Conveys an abstract idea, a moral idea, or a historical lesson: a non-linear narrative structure. Jumping back and forth in time: a third-person limited narrator. Readers may have more information than the narrator: foreshadowing, written as a sort of mystery, free indirect discourse. Form of narration where the third person drops into a first person point of view. Blurs who is doing the speaking: according to another theorist, sci-fi is uniquely suited to carry out defamiliarization. Se asks this question: different characters throughout the novel create art. Miranda making comic books, arthur being an actor, the symphony performing plays and making music, jeevan being a paparazzi, miranda"s boyfriend pablo is a painter. Viktor shklovsky: russian literary critic who believed that the purpose of art is to defamiliarize the world, part of russian formalists.
