ENGB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Life Imitating Art, Mise En Abyme
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Brings the reader as well as the character into the story. Fabula = discourse space (narrator space), vs. szujet = story space (characters live here) Bringing adam into this fabula space creates a mirrored reality, or perhaps a new and different space. Middlemarch mary garth: idea that she exists in our own, real world; in fact, she is more real than the people on the street (those people are portraits. Realism implies a fundamental uneasiness about what is reality. Sentiment: feeling (bad) for someone; an isolated feeling; a genuine feeling. Idealized: scenes of heightened feeling to achieve emotional effect; example: tugging your heartstrings is when sentimentalism is working; something is being crafted to make you feel that way (the death of joe is an example) It doesn"t have to be perfectly crafted, we shoudl feel this way without it being idealized. Sympathy: to understand how someone is feeling; closer to empathy but with more *pity*
