¡Descarga Introducción a la Literatura Inglesa: Unidades 4 y 5 - Prosa y Novela - Prof. Alonso Recar y más Apuntes en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! Introduction to English Literature Lecturer: Anna Brígido Corachán Unit 4: PROSE STORIES: daily life disciplines power-laden point of view metafictional (self-reflection) NARRATIVE STRUCTURE Order of Events Logic : causality (cause/effect) - connections End: resolution – denouement Teleological progression NARRATIVE TIME: -Chronology -Disruptions of linear time flashbacks flash forwards slowing down /speeding up events simultaneous narration ellipsis digressions NARRATOLOGY See Gerard Genette, Narrative Discourse. An Essay in Method NARRATIVE VOICE: 1st person narrator 3rd person narrator EXTERNAL – INTERNAL RESTRICTED – UNRESTRICTED (omniscient) Introduction to English Literature Lecturer: Anna Brígido Corachán NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE or FOCALIZATION: ZERO – EXTERNAL – INTERNAL (character) SPEECH DIRECT SPEECH FREE DIRECT SPEECH INDIRECT SPEECH FREE INDIRECT SPEECH CHARACTERS - Realism – MIMESIS - Characters- persona - Relation to themes THE NOVEL Definition Main features: LONG NARRATIVE MIMESIS FICTION CONTEMPORARY HETEROGLOSSIA READER SHORT HISTORY OF THE NOVEL 18th Century: Literary market (libraries, illiteracy) First novels: Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (1749) Introduction to English Literature Lecturer: Anna Brígido Corachán - non-traditional structure and chronology - subjective experience - poetic symbolism - intertextuality Analysis of: ULYSSES, James Joyce (1922) (excerpt) Stream of consciousness CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE POST - WWII: POSTMODERN LITERATURE Self-Reflexivity (Metafiction) Lack of originality (Parody, Pastiche) Fragmentation Scepticism about Grand Narratives (Enlightenment) Language – Simulations of Reality Pessimism, Spiritual / Moral Decay Real vs. Surface (Depthlessness) JOHN FOWLES (1926-2005) Main themes Novels: The Collector (1963) The Magus (1965-1977) The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) Analysis of: The Collector (1963) o Genre o Type of Narrator(s) o Structure o Features of main characters: Frederick / Miranda o Conflict(s) and main themes o Frederick Clegg as an (anti) hero The Few against the Many: Heraclitus saw mankind divided into a moral and intellectual élite (the aristoi, the good ones, not - this is a later sense - the ones of noble birth) and an unthinking, conforming mass - hoi polloi, the many [...]. One cannot deny that Heraclitus has, like some in itself innocent weapon left lying on the ground, been used by reactionaries: but it seems to me that his basic contention is biologically irrefutable Introduction to English Literature Lecturer: Anna Brígido Corachán (Fowles, The Aristos 1980: 9). WOMEN WRITE BACK 2nd Feminist Wave (1950s-1960s) o Female empowerment o New political issues and narrative strategies ANGELA CARTER The Bloody Chamber (1979) An Analysis of: “The Company of Wolves” -What fairy tale is it based on? -How are gender roles subverted? -Reconfiguration of Gothic elements “The Laugh of medusa” Hélène Cixous 1976 “Woman must write herself: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies-for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text-as into the world and into history-by her own movement” (…) “You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing” Decline of British Empire – NEW VOICES from the margins Postcolonial / Commonwealth Literature Writing in the colonizer’s language Transculturation, new identities Questioning colonial histories/foundational figures Nation vs. Africa Linguistic Debate Chinua Achebe o Born in Ogidi (Nigeria) (1930 -2013). o Novels: Things Fall Apart (1958) No Longer at Ease (1960) Introduction to English Literature Lecturer: Anna Brígido Corachán Arrow of God (1964) A Man of the People (1966) Essays: Home and Exile – 2007 Booker Int’l Prize for Fiction Things Fall Apart (1958) *Themes andConflict o Traditional Igbo culture - orality o First colonial encounters *Structure *Narrator and language used *Gender Roles: Male characters: (Okonkwo, Obierika, Ikemefuna, Nwoye) Female characters: (Ekwefi, Ezinma, Chielo) *Okonkwo as a Tragic Hero *Reader Aim: rewriting African history and culture changing the simplistic, racist representation given by Conrad in Heart of Darkness
