ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Animism, Close Reading
26 Jan 2018
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Close reading: a detailed analysis of the complex interrelationships and ambiguities of the verbal and gurative components within a work. Need to start with this before starting to write research paper. Points of ambiguity: whether the apparitions are natural or supernatural, what"s out there could be a projection of the narrator"s own mind. The narrator tends to have a more fanciful imagination while the swede is more unimaginative. Initially the swede is a ball-work of practical sanity and unimaginative. The narrator does sense something out of the ordinary with the man in the boat. Swede makes fun of the hungarian tales but the narrator notes that the swede was di erent and his normal air was missing (145) As long as the swede is asleep and unable to corroborate what the narrator sees, the narrator is able to justify them.
