English 2307E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Skywriting, Bicycle Pump, Renaissance Art
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The feast of epiphany in the christian calendar that celebrates the coming of the wise men to bethlehem where the divinity of jesus is revealed. It is a coming-of-age story about the personal disillusionments of youth. The fear was that ireland may sell its soul to commerce. The church had started to go into decline: people are driven by their sexual desires and capitalism. Clarissa"s mind (not necessarily what she was doing) Eg. she might be thinking about the past or a friend of hers. This is more realistic it is how we experience life. At any given moment, we are thinking about more than one thing: stream of consciousness tracks the ebbs and flows of the mind . Woolf uses language to imitate the odd rhythms that occur in our minds. Next class: we will begin discussing a scene about skywriting in an airplane (p. 2166)