SLA317H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Walter Benjamin, Frame Story, Didacticism
30 Dec 2017
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Closer and closer to death until we"re experiencing a characters death rst hand. Frame narrative: rst chapter is the present then the rest of the story is informing us of the time before this and how it came to be. Tolstoy moves away from creating ctional world with objective reality, not interested in peopling a world. interested in a central. Authorial voice more dominant. didacticism: everything happens through the lens of a particular idea. povest: between long short story and novella. Written may 1886, after ts conversion where writing ction was a sin. wanted to write simple and didactic tales. continuation of pedagogical interests. despite renunciation of narrative art, here artist does take over at certain moments. T the ideologist is always present. at various moments in the text we remember the t of anna karenina. Based on death of real person, former judge of regional court, died in may 1881.
