C LIT228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rue Morgue (Magazine), Gigolo, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Comparative Literature
• Course: C LIT228
• Professor: Irene Sywenky

Document Summary

C lit 228 september 9, 2016 : poe the murders in the rue morgue. Criminal/detective genre: ve(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:396)apid u(cid:396)(cid:271)a(cid:374)izatio(cid:374), de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of (cid:373)ode(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:272)ities (cid:272)o(cid:373)es othe(cid:396) issues rapidl(cid:455) rising population numbers, crime, etc. Discussed widely in the popular press/printed media: all about the newspapers, against the backdrop of the enlightenment that highlighted science. A lot of interconnections with current events at the time. Western modernity: urban, industrial, capitalist modernity: there is a formula to understanding these genres. Formula in popular fiction vs other discourse: formulaic nature/structure that makes them repetitive: specific plot, character, certain conventions that you work within to create a new story. Would have been printed in installments; most stories like this were serialized. Public would be anticipating the next part of the story: expands readership/popularity. The diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t ga(cid:373)es: chess a(cid:374)d the othe(cid:396) o(cid:374)e . Beginning of the culture of spectacle and of the morbid.