EN119 Lecture Notes - Chinua Achebe, Anansi, Bildungsroman
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Animal fables and trickster tales (readings from course pack): aesop"s fables, ananse the spider, kipling"s the jungle. Week 12: king, green grass, running writing the final. Narrative writing drawn from the imagination rather than from history or fact. The term is most frequently associated with novels and short stories (harmon and. Any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones (murfin and ray 164). Fable: -a brief tale told to point to a moral. Beast fables often a satiric device to point out human follies. Satire - a work or manner that blends a censorious attitude with humour and wit for improvising human institutions or humanity. Bildungsroman a novel that recounts the development (psychological and sometimes spiritual) of an individual from childhood to maturity, to the point at which the protagonist recognizes his or her place or role in the world.