ENGLISH 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Lewis Carroll, Multiplication Table, Erectile Dysfunction
16 Dec 2013
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Structure: reads for the pleasure of reading, uses cards and chests as organizing mechanisms, rules and systems constructed (rules of the game) Taught in class, the surface (the rules and manners: underground, you go deeper and see the madness, craziness, and unruliness of the world, unveils another truth. Our constructed universe is undermined: underneath, there is no room for our usual way of thinking (our logic or social conventions or any other rule) Metamorphosis everywhere (changing size: everything is absurd underground. Journey begins because she is curious (and becomes more curious over time: brings her to fall down the hole. Psychological nature of these books is seen as very important: adventure story on one level (surface level, psychoanalyst. Jokes: all jokes of the repressed, victorian age was a time of repression, reflected the author"s own repression of adventure. Jar of marmalade (picks up the jar and places it in a cupboard because she"s scared of killing someone below)
