ENG364Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pathetic Fallacy
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Short story never wrote a novel. Believed in paring down process of a story (a lot is left out) Revolving around an episode/central episode + back story. Postmodern representation about truth, narrative, limits of language and communications. Syntax, tone, point of view (especially in the opening) Tropes and stories about insight the blind who can see what those who can see don"t. If people aren"t in the centre of it, it"s not a cathedral. How 2 people could understand the same thing; closing eyes -> fuse experiences. Wife = initially the buffer between them but then later faded into their periphery. Repetition and reversal through touch of robert -> experience something profound (tries to represent that experience through art) Mother is a writer = writing in the third person. No matter what you did it is always going to come back to the mother. Different experience of the pathos of the family (comedy and bleak)
