DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Poetic Justice, Irony, Main Plot
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Telling: explanatory method, direct characterisation, narrator"s voice = diegetic discourse. Showing: dramatic method, steal: (speech, thoughts, effects on others, Actions, looks: character"s voice = mimetic discourse. Narrative forms discourse story plot showing versus telling setting poetic justice ending (closure versus open ending) reliability or unreliability? (strategies to check reliability) Unreliable (manipulate reader, memory lapses, personal involvement) Franz k. stanzel: recognize, name, and define the three main narrative situations. Narrating or experiencing i (=tell) always present and knowing show scenes in the world authorial narrator. Duration: ellipsis - auslassung, summary - raffung. Interruptions: anachronic vs. chronological, flashforward (prolepsis, scene - szenische darstellung (1:1, flashback (analepsis, stretch - zeitdehnung, frequency (how often is something, a pause occurs with description of a setting told) Form: nursery rhyme (kinderreim), song, ballad, dramatic monologue, sonnet, haiku: iambic: unstressed - stressed, trochaic: stressed - unstressed, anapaestic: unstressed - unstressed - stressed, dactylic: stressed - unstressed - unstressed.
