EN 1006 Lecture Notes - Structural Level, Robert Louis Stevenson
17 Apr 2013
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Urban gothicism and the strange qualities of existence. Freud, the uncanny and the horrible double. Shilling shocker , dr. jekyll and mr. hyde (1886) The close connection text foregrounds between architectural structure and psychological experiences of characters. Enhances personal reactions = questions authority of narrating voices. Theme of fragmentation introduced on thematic and structural level. We have the perspective of: enfield, dr. lanien, dr. jekyll, dr. utterson, but we do not get mr. hyde"s perspective. By means of this narrative structure, he calls attention to process of storytelling. All of these vignettes call attention to the story that is happening around it. The last narrative kind of refuses closure (from mr. hyde) Devices serve to propel narrative, also represent narratives drive towards coherence. Dr. jekyll does many experiments on himself, and we go through it with him. Seems to be a world in which people (men especially)spend their time alone. Mr. utterson is the respectable victorian man.
