ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - Theodor W. Adorno, Cockfight, Thesis Statement
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Epiphany comes through in many instances: epiphany: sudden discovery, silent stasis, when you feel the clarity of the object, it"s like time has frozen, deeper meaning than revelation, the integritas, the object becomes foreground in the epiphany. Dude realizes she"s super beautiful when he leans against a portrait of. Parataxis placing side by side, a literary device that favours short sentences and the absence of conjunctions: used to show leopold bloom"s stream of consciousness in james joyce"s ulysses. Staccato-like, different modes of death: living in a metropolis, so this technique used to maintain attention for a long time, something about concrete reality. Downtown toronto, you get desensitized from the bombardment of the signs. In the bombardment of stimuli, you latch onto the familiar. It"s all about the same theme in different variations (adorno"s popular music) because people want to experience the familiar. That"s why there"s such a prevalence to stream of consciousness.
