ARTS1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anthony Giddens, William Faulkner, Chiasmus
4 Jun 2018
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3. 15/03/18 The Boat part 2 and Close Reading
THE BOAT
• William Faulkner - Love and Honour
Globalisation
• Important theme within The Boat
• Wide variety of settings and places
• Anthony Giddens - theorist
Themes
• The complexities of the social world
• Mobile / shifting forms of family
• The body - fragility and persistence
The unstable self
• E.g. Tehran Calling
Family
• Defining relationships, but are not stable
• Family relationships central to all protagonists’ identity/sense of self / memory
in The Boat
• Destruction of war leads to the destabilisation of the family
The Body
• Fragile, dying, physical
• One thing that links us all
• E.g. “Meeting Elise” (but also all of the other stories)
CLOSE READING - handwritten notes 15/03
• Three parts:
a. Identification
b. Discussion of effects
c. Connections to broader issues of text
Close reading
• A type of literary criticism
Technique ideas:
• Chiasmus
• Anaphora
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Document Summary
15/03/18 the boat part 2 and close reading. The boat: william faulkner - love and honour. Important theme within the boat: wide variety of settings and places, anthony giddens - theorist. Themes: the complexities of the social world, mobile / shifting forms of family, the body - fragility and persistence. Family: defining relationships, but are not stable, family relationships central to all protagonists" identity/sense of self / memory in the boat, destruction of war leads to the destabilisation of the family. The body: fragile, dying, physical, one thing that links us all, e. g. Meeting elise (but also all of the other stories) Close reading - handwritten notes 15/03: three parts: Close reading: a type of literary criticism.
