ENG 1124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Secret Sharer, Unreliable Narrator, A Rose For Emily

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1124
• Professor: Alan West

Document Summary

There are 2 poles/extremes in terms of fiction"s relationship with the real world, at least in theory: factual/ realistic, fantastic/ imaginative. Why read stories at all: humans have been telling stories (originally orally and then orally and through other media) since they have been able to express themselves. 1) plot: some literary critics have pointed out there is a difference between: The fabula (i. e. the raw material of a work of fiction in terms of its events in chronological order), Example: detective stories usually unfold in time forwards from a crime-the story of the investigation-but continually look backwards in time-they have to uncover facts from the period before the crime took place. Sometimes a story"s chronology make by very straightforward. other narratives shift around in time: a rose for emily by william faulkner is quite complex in its use of flashbacks-most of the story is composed of them.