ENG215H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Short Story Cycle, Ob River, Counterpoint
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Framed narrative- the one that begins and ends the story. Embedded story is the story he tells. Part of the humor is recognizing the humor- like the marine pythias- joke works because we don"t know, but in this case we are in on the joke but the white men don"t. Page 314- once upon a time - impact: western narrative technique so appropriating, also kind of fairytale-ish ie something made up , they already think these are myths . Non formal story telling style also biblical is very careful about time, so he retells in haphazardness, so rather than seeing word as divine sense of purpose it is now characterized by randomness and careless accumulation. Men don"t stay to have tea, they refuse to sit human appetite for story, knit communities together, the braking of hospitality of sharing- self reflexively thinking of how stories function, story telling and power.
