ENGL219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Rhetorical Question, Aust, Steven Carroll
23 Aug 2018
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Character tells his version of events and reduces his capacity for remorse. Highlights how self-serving our memories can be we remember and forget in a way that suits us. Holmes: divided narratives, unreliable narrators, and the sense of an ending: julian barnes, That ugly letter of mine provoked remorse in me. Reading memory: again, i must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. For instance, that memory equals events plus time. And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn"t act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it"s not useful to believe this; it doesn"t help us get on with our lives, so we ignore it . !28 of !41: tony is an unreliable narrator; expressed through question and uncertainty of. In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn"t be much of a story.
