ENGL 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Magic Realism, Emotional Detachment, Surrealism
20 Jan 2016
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Surrealism incorporate elements that are larger than life, more explicit than magical realism, fantasies, imagination, dream-like. Emotional detachment from awful events seems surreal. Narrator harbours jealousy/resentment over sonny"s perceived luck and lack of effort in his success. Go tell it on the mountain highly acclaimed. Asserts that reading is a much a creative act as writing a literary work because both acts involve intelligence and imagination. Postulates that literary works have no existence outside the reader"s mind: age, religious beliefs, race or ethnicity, values or concerns. Cant have writer informing work intentional fallacy. Cant have reader informing work affective fallacy. Acknowledges that different readers can find different meaning in the. The same reader can find different meanings in the same literary work same literary work at different points in life. Concerned with the relationship between reader and text. The way the reader participates in the course of reading. Text has no real existence until it is read.
