ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Starlight, Utopia
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Engb35 lecture 14 continuation of anne of green gables. Romantic infused realism: wish-fulfillment, avonlea / avalon. There is romance in avonlea, but she can"t see it. Exchange for the romance in the books that anne loves. The romance is the genre of summer, fertility, renewal, life. Anne is growing up focalized through marilla. Marilla felt a queer regret over anne"s inches. The child she had learned to love had vanished somehow and here was this tall, serious-eyed girl of fifteen, with the thoughtful brows and the proudly poised little head, in her place. Marilla loved the girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer sorrowful sense of loss. I just couldn"t help thinking of the little girl you used to be, anne. And i was wishing you could have stayed a little girl, even with all your queer ways.
