ENGB34 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Countee Cullen, Thesis Statement, Earl Stevick

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30 Sep 2011
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Stevick: the whole significance of such stories, their whole justification for being, is invested in that moment of insight around which the rest of the story deploys itself (419) Short stories tend to deal with characters who are constantly attempting to establish identities their worlds do not support. Epiphany and unknowing: the epiphanic moment often marks a challenge to knowledge, constituting a means of unknowing rather than a means to knowledge . Epiphany"s double structure: the epiphanic moment can provide a stable sense of closure and adumbrate a new order. Epiphany and illusion: the insights often disabuse [characters] of their illusions about the world the story presents. Sonny"s blues the stories within the story. How is this epiphany represented? (for example, compared to the respective epiphanies in the lady with the dog and sonny"s blues ) His aptitude for writing at a young age attracted the attention of countee cullen. He explored issues of race and sexuality.

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