ENGL 1128 Lecture Notes - Screen Printing, Stainless Steel, Defamiliarization
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An essay structured around the relations of event or event. The event(s) related can reflect a larger theme on purpose. Differs from personal narration in that the event is not told from the perspective of the narrator (although the narrator can be involved) What does it mean to be canadian for laurence (167-68) A piece of writing relating a true event (or events) from the perspective of the writer of the essay. Autobiographical: offers insight into the author"s background, character and/or personality. May use a personal story to reflect on a theme or idea. Language defamiliarizes (puts you in a situation where you feel odd; makes us rethink our assumptions) A strange place it was, that place where the world began pg 164. The world began is her world that began not ours. Paradox: the river seemed to be flowing both ways pg 168. It was, in fact, a small prairie town (defamiliarizes)
