ENGLISH 45C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psychological Thriller, Intertextuality, Negative Capability
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Younger brother of william james - psychologist. Clash of new world and old world. Old world: corrupt, old, bad, but has a sophistication, glamour that new doesn"t. Prolific: dozens of writings in all genres. Execution is what determines a good novel rather than subject matter. Focal point/pov: perspective through which story is told. Limited rather than omniscient view, narrative events filtered through eyes of a character used to achieve new depths by james. Epistemological works: things having to deal with knowledge. Forces you to read it multiple times. Call attention to the medium of his art (language) Writing is not about something, it is that something. Refers to jane eyre (mad, unmentionable relative) Wants to evoke the greatest of evil. Make the reader think the evil themselves. Nothing more potent than the power of suggestion. Frame story: 3 frame stories, story within a story within a story. Daughter of vicar in the country, poor, sheltered.
