ENGL303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: William Wallace Lincoln, Terry Eagleton, Heteroglossia
22 Aug 2018
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Lecture structure: lincoln in the bardo as a contemporary novel, polyphony, what is a novel, aspects of the contemporary novel, summing up the unit. The contemporary literary novel: lyrical: interested in language and the possibilities of language, slips in and out of time, character focused, rather than plot focused, interested in disintegration and fragmentation. Polyphony: polyphonic meaning many (poly) voices (phony). Literature as contradiction: in a creative writing masterclass with saunders that i attended earlier this year at the university of liverpool, the author outlined his vision of literary stories as active systems of contradiction . We come to see that these apparent opposites are in fact different faces of a fundamental unity. This is the unity that underpins our connection to one another in a shared world adam kelly, the conversation, http:// theconversation. com/george-saunderss-lincoln-in-the-bardo-is-a-genuinely-startling-novel-85917. History: the novel"s subject matter is thus both explicitly political and obliquely allegorical.
