ENG234H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Soft Focus, Surface Tension, Free Indirect Speech
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Titty shares what she reads in books but also embeds allusions to what is currently happening. Sameness in conventions of stories - generic literature. If you read enough stories you know it has to end a certain way - imitative conventions. Still variety in conventions - enough uncertainty to keep reading. Ransome sets up situation but mocks himself for going with stereotype - pulls back to add twist so it"s more realistic. Titty persists and has faith in how things should go. Parallel distinction of titty as author herself. Enclosure makes voyage possible but there is also a wide world - possibility - (40) Explorers go out and bring resources back - flint"s souvenirs. Language presents gulf between adult and child. First the book separates them but later brings them together when adult endeavour = removed. Flint = single writer has capacity to live and play out imaginatively with children. Free indirect discourse - thoughts = funnelled.
