what is the novel? feedback on your answers. be prepared to share your views
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WHAT IS THE NOVEL?
Feedback on your answers.
Be prepared to share your views.
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ASPECTS OF NARRATIVE
• The first part of your course will be “Aspects of Narrative”.
• It consists of a number of challenging texts terminating in a single, two hour exam.
• You will be expected to read around the set texts.
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ASPECTS OF NARRATIVE
• You will study two novels and two sets of poems.
• The first novel will be Charles Dickens, on which topic is your homework.
• The first poet we look at will be W. H. Auden.
• You will need to know all four texts very well.
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ASPECTS OF NARRATIVE
• The goals of the course are to make you think about narrative. Although ‘Narrative’ is meant broadly, the topic can be thought of in terms of:
1. How the writer constructs the narrative
2. How the reader responds to narrative.
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WHAT IS NARRATIVE?
• “Whilst narratology can be broadly defined as the study of narrative, it is perhaps best described as the structuralist study of narrative plots.”
– Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory
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SO NARRATIVE CAN BE SEEN AS THE STUDY OF PLOTS
• Plot is the “first principle,” the most important feature.
• Aristotle defines plot as “the arrangement of the incidents”: i.e., not the story itself but the way the incidents are presented to the audience, the structure of the play.
• This is a start, but it is not quite enough. Think how many ways of describing an event there can be. You can use mime, words, pictures, writing and so on.
• So the “Aspects” part of the course really describes the very various things which happen when Plot is told.
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“ABOUT SUFFERING THEY WERE NEVER
WRONG”
What questions do you have about this line?
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MUSÉE DES BEAUX ARTS – W.H. AUDEN
About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters: how well they understoodIts human position; how it takes placeWhile someone else is eating or opening a window or justwalking dully along;How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waitingFor the miraculous birth, there always must beChildren who did not specially want it to happen, skatingOn a pond at the edge of the wood:They never forgotThat even the dreadful martyrdom must run its courseAnyhow in a corner, some untidy spotWhere the dogs go on with their doggylife and the torturer’s horseScratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns awayQuite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman mayHave heard the splash, the forsaken cry,But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shoneAs it had to on the white legs disappearing into the greenWater; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seenSomething amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
• In what sense is this a narrative?
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