ENGL206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Giaour, Asteroid Family, Samuel Rogers
22 Aug 2018
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Byron + keats: balladry, fragmentation and the gothic hero. Byron + keats - intro: lack of levity and playfulness, takes drama more seriously, argument: there is a degree of playfulness in byron"s poem, but we just have to dig a little bit to. Nd it: fragmentation forces us into a recognition of the play of ideas and the ways texts (part. Gothic texts) invite readers to make meaning from a partial amount of knowledge. We receive limited information and a puzzle we are asked to solve. Lord byron (1788-1824: unlike other romantic writers, byron was incredibly popular in his own day. Somewhere that couldn"t be controlled by english imperial conquest and hence, held. Engl206 up a different kind of mirror to other european others". The giaour and the byronic archetype: remains mysterious, occupies a diminished space within the represented elements of the narration, introduction comes at line 180:
