EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Michael Talbot (Author), J. R. R. Tolkien, Historical Romance
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Community: helps us to build bonds between individuals. Memorial: way to record history of particular community. Stories can impact us and change the way we feel about ourselves/the world and a shift in perspective/consciousness: theorists argue the most powerful reason for telling stories, telling stories affects what it means to have consciousness. Accepting idea of multiple time lines and dimensions. Many sci-fi stories are responsible for this readers and audiences experiencing a life in a reality outside of our own in order to grow and learn. Begins to erase the boarder between virtual reality and material reality. Stories are important to us because: shift in perspective or (cid:498)consciousness(cid:499) remind us of something (cid:498)higher(cid:499) May connect virtual and real (cid:498)worlds(cid:499) in spiritual ways. Different genres we will look at: fantasy, gothic, historical romance. Critical tool kit (methodology: genre, narrative, character, archetypes, time and space, genre.
