ENG 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Print Culture, Frame Story
13 Feb 2017
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Layering poem in russian-doll like constructs of how storytelling is made. Coleridge all have power of imagination; readers are co-authors to make art possible: secondary imagination (artistic) norton 491. Continued parts of poem should be unifying, but us readers have to do that. The sublime: elements of danger: somewhere wild and inhospitable; description of wild; excites feelings of self-alienation, representation of subconscious rather than natural. Albatross: coleridge came up with albatross around your neck heavy burden to bear, intentionally using archaic language. Layering: mariner"s tale crime seems excessive for punishment, mariner"s tale to wedding guest frame narrative. Theme: aural transmission: ballad and then scholar"s gloss how aural tradition passes into print culture. Wedding guest 1 of 3 part of a community, but also singled out: narratives shape social identity often in tragic ways. Wedding guest is forevermore going to be changed.
