ENGL219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Barry Unsworth, Edward Said, Michael Ondaatje
23 Aug 2018
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If the animal fable has enlightenment as its purpose either through satire or moral instruction, Maus remains thoroughly ambiguous, if not opaque as to the possible success of such enlightenment. Rather than providing use with an enlightened moral and with a happy reconciliation between high and low, animal trauma and memory : literary value can also be found in the moving image. Romance suspense the social function of the novel. This week (low-brow looking up: romance as a love story (romance for narrative pleasure, romance and orientalism, wwii, the end of empire, and the end of romance. Next week (high-brow looking down: reading, taste and the classics at the end of the empire, the booker and british identity. Mills & boon: generic conventions of romance that we are playing with here, end of empire and orientalism comes together in romance genre. Lynne pearce: makes important bridge between the utopian romance locations" an attempt to wrestle traumatic space into ideal space.
