ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Bildungsroman, Omen, Tephra
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Master plot- ingraved in culture, new takes on the story (story more poplular than the written work) 1816: year without a summer: largest volcanic eruption. Poet[ percy shelly]: ran away with mary godwin to villa diodota (lorn virin) Year without summer- cold/rainy (no enjoyment/inspiration)=> instead, tell ghost stories. Ie. poet goes to mountain top to write a passionate novel [go to locations/nature] Young heroine taken away to a mysterious castle (creeks/portrait eyes follow you) explained at the end (sometimes) Take place in italy/ places with passion (not england: modernism/scientific) Something familiar yet strange (ie. doppelgangers, coincidences, d j vu, repetition of the same, the absurd (look through a window to someone talking on a phone animated way, can"t hear them but its funny/ taken out of life that"s weird ) Things that resemble humans are cute/adorable unless they resemble too much (uncanny valley) freaks us out. Frankenstein is the bottom of uncanny valley (too realcreepy)
