ENG250Y1 Lecture : ENG250 - January 23 - William Faulkner.docx
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Experience of time is important: the temporal experience when viewing and interpreting art is important, the differences between literature and art is basically the same in terms of the temporal experience of the reader/viewer. There was a notion of history as progress that was elemental. The idea of erasure, and the erasing of obscenity from the book. The time pieces that are broken or nearly broken in both the great gatsby and sound and fury is important because it is an image of the temporal zones that are present and elemental in the novels. Think about the references to time and the pace of time within the novel. What is it to impose an idea a fantasy on something that is perishable because it means that at some point it will fade. Throughout the story the dream of daisy is sort of like a never-ending quest, once he actually gets it, the reality can"t live up to the dream.