ENG365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reduced Affect Display, Utopia
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Silence emphasize language of gesture, enable invisibility. Hosokawa and roxanne, conversing in traditional sense but reciprocated love. Utopian elements american pastoral, intuitionist and bel canto: hidden blemishes swede jewish, fulton, house, relative utopia in bel canto gen working, tibault missing wife . Fyrdorv"s story, symbol objects, appreciating art and being an audience. Unnatural dialogue in falling man, no solace or utopia, not therapeutic. Reflects what it means to live in post-9/11 society. Language inseparable from world that provokes it. People falling from towers hand in hand, part of counter narrative, hands and spirits joining, human beauty in crush of speech event asserts singularity. Pg 134 power button on remote kept watching footage histories into some other business beyond towers has to be an accident, way the camera show surprise, but 2nd plane everyone wiser, older. Evoke experience of being compelled to rewatch traumatic events. Gruesomely beautiful, rare ruptures from which history will not recover .
