English 1027F/G Lecture 2: English 1027 – Lecture 2 – September 12 2017

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English 1027 lecture 2 september 12 2017. Why do we need beginnings: kermode: we have beginnings because there is something inhuman about time, it answers to a basic human demand the rage for order. We begin our lives as we end our lives, in medias res (in the middle of something). Our lives start somewhere in the middle of something and everything goes on without you, we begin and end in the middle and this is intolerable to us. Beginnings are necessary fiction; it puts brackets on each end and becomes tolerable. Beginnings offer us stability and certainty, things that the world lacks. Beginnings humanize time: they have very specific functions. Atmosphere: the mood or general feeling of a literary work, especially as it relates syntax. It is the product of the writer"s diction and of time).

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