ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bertha Mason, Bildungsroman
3 Feb 2015
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When novels refer to other books, it means the book is self reflective and instructing us on how to read it cross prollination is very self reflexive, that poem is all about what it"s like to read a poem reading gets jane into trouble, point of conflict between her and her cousins, there is difference between jane and john treats books: forjohn they are possessions, objects, she sees them as portals to her imagination, doesn"t think you can own book, not interested in what books say, imagination is spurred by the images, enable her wandering, you should be more focused on the context of jane eyre than jane eyre is focused on the context, images of british birds, imagines the vast sweep of the arctic zone , thinks of her life as an explorer"s tale, claimsthat the novel is something of an explorer"s tale.
