ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shapeshifting, Close Reading, Intertextuality
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Thomas king has said that, as a writer, he might be driven to recreate the world. ". Name four ways in which he recreates or challenges the world" (or a narrative about the world) in the one about coyote going west. " (mine) Exodus to the west images of futuristic world, a pseudo-eden that is in actuality (according to king) confused and corrupt. Striking down of the conventional notion that the white man were/are the basis of civilization in n. america (lecture) Through what might be considered confusing or illogical methods that consider potentials that we might not have thought of: create a whole space for that kind of imagining creation of an imaginative space. Plays with some of oral traditions huge emphasis on storytelling within the story: storyteller checks for understanding, plays upon a creation story one that is a native oriented.
