ENGL 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Warwick Allerton - Chicago, Irwin Shaw, Morphine
12 Feb 2018
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Patti smith similar to eden bower, trying to make success in greenwich village. Opposites- eden bower does more training to improve skills, smith is more broken. Have very different relationships with their audiences. She talks about the ugly underside of music industry. Patti smith (allerton hotel) vs irwin shaw (run down hotel) Partly romantic, friendship, perspective of professional role. Verisimilitude= truth-appearing, fiction that is imaginary with sense of truth. Nasty poor truth of struggling artists and habitat. Classical unity in time (greek plays took place in one day) Details of small actions- bottle empties (zelinka drinks too much) Narrative voice tracks alcohol consumes to give sense of time. Loneliness, isolation in the city- universal and powerful feeling (relatable) Hotel a place of sin and death- exaggerated. Never see any sin or death- intensification. Deception, illusion, passion- not realistic that an exact replica of one of the most beautiful person in world shows up.
