ENG365H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Metafiction, Dramatization, Utopia
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Content of the stories we covered on the syllabus. Key terms: minimalism, metafiction (where are they present in the texts) Plays with the notion of credibility and incredibility. There is a metafictional subtext in this story (the play) that gives context to what time period this story was set in and what time period it was written. Reminds the readers that this story is fictional, an art of literature. If you find my omelas too squeaky clean, you can insert your own orgy . Never lets the story go too far without reminding the readers again that they are reading a story. The story lack credibility because the author does not allow us to fantasize, the narrator instead keeps referring to the reader and pulling us back to the real world. Idea of a scapegoat: oen person suffers for the rest. Rhetorical question (posing a rq to readers is strange)
