EN 1002 Lecture 3: lect 3
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Reveal and critique social climbing (and falling), class pretensions, imitating upper class behaviors. Probability belongs to logic; how humans perceive reality belongs to epistemology two fields of philosophy, not literary studies. Character: individualized, engaged in everyday experiences, represented as having a consciousness, interior life, memory of the past. Setting or environment: represented detailed descriptions and profusion of material objects with emphasis on interiors. We get a sense of immediacy and suspense through the device of letter written, illusion of eavesdropping on a characters life as it unfolds rather than retrospectively as in other narrative forms. Fielding"s shamela rewrote it to reveal her shameless shamming: social climbing, her actual designs on squire b. Exposes stylistic techniques through exaggeration or self referential comment. She is also a master of using dialogue in a way to show how characters miscommunicate. Not the heroine of a number of other novels = writing against and exposing reader"s expectations.
