ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kathleen Jamie, Corn Crake, Anthropomorphism
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Close reading: taking ideas that are preconceived, and structuring it together. Avoid symbols(uniies); instead see metaphors(disjuncions: contact zones: Treat space as an experience: sensaion rather than knowledge or memory. If not, what does it mean to say animals have thought or rights . Crex-crex: birds as adapted species: between human and non-human, corncrake: long linked to human habitaion, though rarely seen", oten ideniied by sound, gods of the ield . Compeing with us to be god : constable, the hay wain(1821)(page 69-70, jamie: we are removed and distant. She puts imaginaion into scene: sound of the bird, constable strolling home and hearing this sound, commonness around him . Overall feeling is insuicient, doesn"t give us enough to perceive a landscape. Throwing in sound allows us to discuss the abandonment of this bird. Jamie reinvening closeness and proximity of the bird: from corncrake. Landrail, king of the quail to ahead of us (p. 71)
