ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Double Hook, The Fisher King, First Nations
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Man who murders mother and flees only to be dragged back by his responsibilities (fatherhood). New family founded on the ruins of the old family (literal ruins - fire) Role is to be more applicable to more people, a less specific world. Experience is concrete to get rid of omniscient narration (who knows everything). Making aesthetic material out of a place that she actually knows. Taking out the secondary info but it makes it more immediate/roots characters in the here and now (erase history to focus on the present moment) The fisher king reference modernism, against reading things for ease, plot, content, wants you to figure out the form. Coyote"s eye view looking down from above and seeing them. Looking to ritual and religious traditions being reintegrated into people"s lives. Water as a positive and negative symbol. Relationship to the land (emily brings the wind woman) have a psychological effect on the characters.
