ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Gaston Bachelard, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
13 Mar 2013
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The change of our psychological experiences: the sudden glimpse of freedom and stirring of imagination. The experience of confinement and the attempt to get better. Dead paper indicates that there is a certain detachment in her mind as well: a conditioning of what the paper is before she starts to write, pattern of death and life. This is dead paper and a great relief to my mind contrasting paradox. Wallpaper: hides things, common in the victorian era. What she is creating in the journal is herself. She has released herself in the journal as well, not just from the wallpaper. Short stories give us a combination of these: stories of orientation. Makes the argument that houses are made a certain way: there is a corresponding relationship between the stature and condition of the standing human body and the architecture of the house. Upper space (atic) associated with mind, imagination, daydream, psychological experiences.
