ETH STD 101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Louise Erdrich, E Street Band, Mikhail Bakhtin
18 Nov 2020
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The making of a symbol, what a symbol does in an artistic way. Historical conditions of what it means to live on the rez. Rez is a place of despair & hopelessness--the place you want to escape from. The hope is that they"re going to leave & be successful off of the reservation. Needs to find some form of agency to leave reservation. Red convertible becomes symbol of innocence & unshackled youth. To be able to follow your desires. Move from innocence to trying to heal henry"s trauma. How much he has changed from coming back from war. In the literary artistic chronotope, spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought-out, concrete whole. Time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible; likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot and history. This intersection of axes and fusion of indicators characterizes the artistic chronotope. (from m. m.
