ENGLISH 2H06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ocean City, Maryland, The Funhouse, Misogyny
28 Mar 2017
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Melville is ahead of his time-> philosophical and doppelganger. The whole story is kind of stable (just one character who is not stable) Aporia- a point of undecideability that deconstructs the text (jacques derrida) Denotation vs. connotation-> we want to find more value. Metafiction (meta= greek for after or beyond ); refers to itself. Reminds readers that this is a story, not that this is only a story, but whatever else it is, it is a story. You"re enthralled, you"re spellbound, if we are doing our work right, by a storyteller, and do not confuse this with reality. Recognized the used- upness of conventional narratives and literary techniques. Questions literary realism: literature is not a representation of reality (mimesis) Why does barth include the mobius strip in frame tale? . A metaphor for what we do with storytelling. Thus, we can play with it, like an.
