ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Solipsism, Cupid, Maurices
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Works cited always on its own page; absolutely necessary. Cite the book you"re talking about in the essay; practice. Cant; way of speaking in code, usually for lower class lower class entertainment industry way of speaking. Subversive or criminal subjects are spoken in this manner in case any cops were around; gay men would use palari in order to manoeuvre the time where homosexuality was illegal (time maurice was written). Bildungsroman: a building novel, earliest gay bildungsroman (talking about gay sexual development, the coming out process). Moral growth of character in his younger ages to adulthood. Solipsism: philosophical concept, no existence exists outside of the self. It is the complete denial of anyone else"s subjectivity; the only person that really exists is me. Heteronormativity: the default assumption that everyone is and should be heterosexual; not just explicit acts of heterobigratry that are hetereonormativity.