English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Dialogic, Metanarrative, The Real Inspector Hound

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: Allan Pero

Document Summary

Dialogue double-voicing irony: dramatic irony, verbal irony, distance between expectation and reality. Dialogue and irony putting everything in quotation marks like how inspector hound is doing this to the murder mystery. We can become self-reflexive about what dialogism can do in context of a novel. Means of avoiding a larger problem the problem of truth. The real inspector hound uses what will become conventions of metatheatricality: relatively simple to follow the conventions of reality, what is realistic is not necessarily truthful. Trying to show us how the play is disrupting the conventions of murder mystery and the realism we attach to it. There are the critics and the characters within the play-within-a-play: critics are in the audience. Birdboot: cheats on his wife and has developed a fascination with felicity. Critics occupy the space of reality and create the story. The events on stage occupy the space of illusion/fantasy. Critique how the conventions of murder mystery have been calcified.