ENG364Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Abstract Impressionism, Intertextuality
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Busy; lots of things happening choppy. Says he doesn"t feel black when he"s pretending to be pointier"s son what white people would want to hear but then has to admit and say aloud what would happen over the phone at the end. Last thing the audience expects to see (sexuality, race, class) Obsession into that world -> can"t distinguish what"s real and what"s not. Treating art as an object to be sold plays up romanticism. Paul = used as an anecdote; beautified plaques. Suddenly the reality they don"t live in is in their home. Art as holding experience and what it can mean as representational, abstract impressionism. Privilege of being able to be in that position spiral off. Starts with the hook; goes backwards in time. Able to peel away performance from something else. Intertextuality: shakespeare, catcher in the rye, who"s afraid of virginia woolf. How much of the chaos happening is necessary or entropy.
