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+ | 1.1 Modernism | ||
+ | Any of various movements in art, architecture, literature, etc., generally characterized by a deliberate break with classical and traditional forms or methods of expression; the work or ideas of the adherents of such a movement. | ||
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+ | 1.2 Stream of consciousness | ||
+ | 1. Psychol. An individual's thoughts and conscious reaction to external events experienced subjectively as a continuous flow. Also loosely, an uncontrolled train of thought or association. | ||
+ | 2. Literary Criticism. A method of narration which depicts events through this flow in the mind of a character; an instance of this. | ||
+ | → cf. p. 51/52 | ||
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+ | 1.3 Epiphany | ||
+ | 1. A manifestation or appearance of some divine or superhuman being. | ||
+ | 2. a) A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something. | ||
+ | b) A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization | ||
+ | → cf. p. 52 | ||
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+ | 1.4 Shifts in perspective & narrator's visibility | ||
+ | Dominant focalization on Bakha, but: several shifts of perspective (→ cf. p. 22-26) which show us thoughts and feelings of characters other than Bakha which include even minor characters such as Havildar’s cook or the little babu brother in these shifts of perspective. | ||
+ | → cf. p. 29 | ||
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+ | Describing the setting, commenting (→ cf. p.58), reporting what characters do not know, do not say (→ cf. p. 102/103) | ||
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+ | telling = guide reader's response to fiction | ||
+ | showing = reader experiences fiction on his/ her own → “critical distance” | ||
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+ | 1.5 Personal & impersonal narration | ||
+ | neutral - restricted (impersonal): The narrator takes no figure‘s perspective. | ||
+ | personal - limited: The narrator takes the perspective of one or several figures. | ||
+ | → cf. p. 29; 102/103 |
Revision as of 23:58, 31 January 2010
Mulk Raj Anand "Untouchable": Narration
1.1 Modernism Any of various movements in art, architecture, literature, etc., generally characterized by a deliberate break with classical and traditional forms or methods of expression; the work or ideas of the adherents of such a movement.
1.2 Stream of consciousness 1. Psychol. An individual's thoughts and conscious reaction to external events experienced subjectively as a continuous flow. Also loosely, an uncontrolled train of thought or association. 2. Literary Criticism. A method of narration which depicts events through this flow in the mind of a character; an instance of this. → cf. p. 51/52
1.3 Epiphany 1. A manifestation or appearance of some divine or superhuman being. 2. a) A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
b) A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization
→ cf. p. 52
1.4 Shifts in perspective & narrator's visibility Dominant focalization on Bakha, but: several shifts of perspective (→ cf. p. 22-26) which show us thoughts and feelings of characters other than Bakha which include even minor characters such as Havildar’s cook or the little babu brother in these shifts of perspective. → cf. p. 29
Describing the setting, commenting (→ cf. p.58), reporting what characters do not know, do not say (→ cf. p. 102/103)
telling = guide reader's response to fiction showing = reader experiences fiction on his/ her own → “critical distance”
1.5 Personal & impersonal narration neutral - restricted (impersonal): The narrator takes no figure‘s perspective. personal - limited: The narrator takes the perspective of one or several figures. → cf. p. 29; 102/103