ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Metafiction
7 Nov 2017
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Central incident in the story is a moment of revelation. How it is made becomes much more evident to the reader. Person who articulates the story, narrator (first person or third person) Doesn"t necessarily have to be the writer. Third person: less biased than first person. Quality of voice that you"ll hear working through a story/poem. Attitude towards the subject and towards the audience through the literary work. Many qualities of tone: somber, solemn, serious, angry, informal, intimate, playful, ironic, condescending, loving, etc. Stream of consciousness: as if you"re reading the characters thoughts. Description of feelings as if you"re in the characters head. As if it"s being delivered from a single characters pov. Shows the reader that what you"re reading is a work of art. Meta-fiction: narrative; work of art; about how art is made: fallible/unreliable: Distanced from the narration; we see what is going on. The narrator doesn"t see the big picture.
