ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Stout, World War I, Romanticism
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Character: name of a literary genre, short witty sketch in prose of a distinctive kind of person. Thinking about who is in this work of fiction, how they change, their motivation, how they are revealed. Showing: where the character reveals himself by what he does. Character & plot are inextricable from each other. What is character without the explanation of plot, and try to evaluate them based on that. Free indirect discourse: the narrative technique of shifting subtly without warning between the mind of the character and the narration. Speech and thought are not distinguished by quotations. Inexact use of a word "i was literally run off my feet" Epiphany: attached to james joyce, any transformative moment of insight in literature, an ancient effect going back to greek drama and the bible. A sense of sudden radiance and revelation that occurs in a work of literature, when a significance is suddenly clear.