English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Biskupin, Run Lola Run, Baby Point

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: David Bentley

Document Summary

Full of metaphor, simile, repeated pattern poet"s novel. Michaels makes jakob a poet so the poetic language of the text is credible (like how in the. Dead gabriel"s poetic epiphany wouldn"t have been credible if he wasn"t a writer) Central to fugitive pieces is difficulty of writing about other people and the past and also the difficulty of reading about other people and the past. Novel is about others and about reading the text, not just the literary text but also geological, meteorological texts, etc. Michaels believes it is our duty to remember the past or else we"re doomed to repeat it exercise our powers of empathy with the past. 221+ i had discovered the perfectly preserved bog people end pg. Pg. 249 since his (ben"s father) death ascent - father relationship with food like concentration camp what we"re doing in novel ben uses past to absorb into himself and it becomes a part of his being.