ENG458H1 Lecture Notes - Leotard, Metanarrative
Document Summary
A history of the world in 10 chapters. Form like bible, different histories working together to make whole. Aesthetic choices by painter to paint shipwreck. Question of selection, distortion and transformation of truth and history. Interpretation, themes that can be extended to biblical texts are shaped by how bible has been set from the start. Leotard -> postmodernism is incredulity towards metanarrative (attempts to make sense) Suspicion/disbelief of grand narratives (religion, marxism, science) Presumption in book that metanarratives are inherently violent because it enforces one way of thinking of things. Disrupting and offering different ways of thinking about things. Countervoice doesn"t come from bible but from barnes. Believes biblical text enforces only one perspective throughout. But biblical tradition is easily capable of offering other voices. Woodworm becomes figures to expose biblical loopholes, smart, ironic outside. Idea of anthology of texts, reinterpretation commentator to offer different perspectives and make think about it.
