ENG210Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Darwinism, Existentialism, Daniel Defoe
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Novel is very flexible and remains flexible and open to change. Not resting for too long in any certain role, it keeps changing. Is a person who, not only writes, but needs engagement in the world for words to take shape. Eventually writers in the world stepped back and were more inclusive. Professional blogger pamphlets: how arguments/statements were spread around, that often veered into something else. Irony - need to have a way in . Narrator moderate, caring, just wants to tell (doesn"t want to persuade) It is a historical novel -- we have the feeling of a retrospection (very short time after the event), but it isn"t (years after) City and novel go together (i. e. city poets) Interesting because of nature of city and expansiveness, choices made by people, closing of houses. With a more emotional narrator the story would be worse because it would become too sentimental (narrator uses facts)
