ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sir Launfal, Romantic Poetry
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Essay due march 28th -- 5-7 page. Are reinforced but not gendered but distributed along all the characters. Identity -- hunger games and anne of green gables, alice vs coraline. Is lang used by the protagonist declaration that causes something to happen - spells are performative. Both alice in wonderland and coraline seem to reinforce. Investment in the child and not the adults who change. Marilla and connects her to her childhood, liberating her. To that extent, book is romantic tog with its interest in nature, imagination. In the authority it gives anne as a symbol of childhood. -- she knows she"s wearing a hideous dress but imagines it"s a good one and gets herself through. That awful reality is the seed for imagination. She"s closer to her imagination also renders the imagination less useful. Marilla had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd - marilla feels something odd going around here. I"m so glad i"m going to live here.
