ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Parthenogenesis, Types Of Rural Communities, The Sleeping

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 222
• Professor: Andrew O' Malley

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Fairy tales, folk tales, fantasy come from or describe faerie state of being/mind that has to do with magic/state of magic one that he associates with the natural world. Fantasy writing as escape not a flight of the deserter ie. Fantasy as unwillingness to confront reality: escape companion to disgust, anger, condemnation, revolt critique of a reality that is. Fallen" modern, post wwi, industrial society ugly, cruel, destructive of nature, motivated by greed. Setting (middle earth): pastoral, welcoming, majestic, sublime, people in harmony with natural world. Goblins makers of modern war machine. Smaug smog new form of industrial blight: valuing handcraft, parallels industrial production, an effort to imagine a world governed by custom and tradition. Pg 50: narrator talking: feels like face to face oral story telling. Interrupting of 3rd person narration by a 1st person voice: i can tell you .