English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anna O., The Yellow Wallpaper

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: Jonathan Boulter

Document Summary

Don"t give a plot summary, but engage in close reading: assume marker read the text muliple imes. Demonstrate why the passage is signiicant to the text as a whole; metaphors, images, etc: making links between these local moments and the text as a whole. Locate what is quesionable: able to sustain quesion support your ideas with more than simply opinion. Close readings to close read means you are atending carefully, listening very carefully all details, images, metaphors to avoid massive generalizaions. Speak to the paricular resonance of certain moments. How speciic passages make sense to the enire text: must make sense while looking at the enire story. Repeiion of a word is very crucial: in a poem or a short story, very criical. Fancy: means fantasy, a projecion in imaginaion of a paricular desire, desire an expression of kind of need, a fancy/fantasy is a recogniion of something that is lacking. Story expresses a desire for company: isolated physically/emoionally.