ENGL 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zora Neale Hurston, Alterity, Externality

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James importance of novel lies in different points of interests, not list of approved topics. Concept: the idea of the novel as a living entity. Both writers wish to revolutionize the art of novel writing. Capture the process of thinking, the very essence of the mind. Wolf writes about humanity as a general concept. Modernity tends to yield the idea that we are progressing and making things better. False: as time evolves, we tend to reduce literature into boxes/categories. Poets like wordsworth were connected to nature and communing that to their poetry. Transformative experience, transcendental romantic notions still exist in modernity. Embrace loss of meaning instead of being anxious about it. Portrayed as masculine (attire is bloomers, mobile riding bikes) Eliza linton, anti- feminist journalist time was when the phrase a fair young english girl", meant the ideal of womanhood: to us, at least, of home birth and breeding.

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