SLA317H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Idyll, Cherry Picking, Glossary Of Ancient Roman Religion
30 Dec 2017
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Family happiness look for representation of time and space, evidence of the idyl. country vs city. Di culties of intimacy, the pleasures the horrors and di culties with existing as a self with other selves. compromise of having to share the world with other people, how to balance marriage as it requires intimacy of two selves. 1859 written. declared story a disgraceful abomination before it was published. ugliness of language from ugliness of though, much venomous disgrace towards the work. shame, self depreciating hate. Perhaps most extreme case of his hate towards his work. criticized work for schematic qualities, as though its russian jane eyre. Title is not ironic or non ironic - a con ict between parts one and two. Some praised work for the poetry and the awakening masha experiences. praised by some as t"s best work (before war & peace) A retrospective narrator sometimes, looking back on masha"s youth. Importance of the mother and the absent mother.
