ENG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Human Condition
18 Apr 2017
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New, original book in style, content of its time: style questions readers" assumptions. Destabilizes form: plot is to whom and how character perceives it, lacks structure as well, liked it, try to make sense of the world. P. 2157 in people"s eyes of june : noisy. Contrast with hush of her house: also intensely private and very public book. Keats loving, but irreconcilable separates (war and peace, public and private, etc. : tensions between pairs of thigns (momentarily) resolved at party. Not fully resolved difficulties with closure, offers ambiguity. Texts supports different meanings: human condition in flux. Theme: interconnectedness of all thngs: played out with image patterns, repeated words and phrases, connections between characters, sane vs insane. Plane, car: even if they don"t know each other, or are distant. 2157 she stuffed a little very upright. : scrope purvis direct discourse. Aware of environment around her (interconnected: bird imagery associated with clarissa, smooth flow into one another.
