ENGC50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mao Ii, John Updike, The Yellow Wallpaper
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Story was published only a few weeks ago in the new yorker. Hollywood stereotype for the honourable person with a dishonourable job: Pretty woman - the escort with a heart of gold ; an adult fairy tale narrative where the prostitute is risen up from her dishonourable job. Barthes the reality effect : in a book, reality is not actual reality. But you have to produce the effect of reality - the book does this in different ways (some are subjective) Some elements that give the reality effect: Dialogue - in contrast, delillo"s novel was very unrealistic in the way it switched between natural colloquial language and very grandiose, poetic language. Ha jin"s first language is not english. Re-applied for university in 1977 after the cultural revolution in china - he was given the subject of english to study. Came to the u. s on scholarship; the tiananmen massacre happened and he decided to not return to china.