ENG 378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ghostwriter, George Meredith, Elegy
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Chatterton by peter ackroyd the image, the spectacle: can be related back to money (see previous week"s notes, there are no souls, only faces (7) Everything is superficial, nothing deeper than what the eye can see the soul is connected to the unique/original ideas of art. Characters constantly creating a face for the outside world forgery/fraud: characters (all connected by art, all characters seem to be playing at roles. Camping it up : real characters vs fake characters, harriet scrope. Motherly, always producing something: creative, starting something from nothing and developing it. Borrows the plot of another novel to write her second book (100-103: giving new life to things, adds to maternal instinct identity & composition seem to be linked. Personality more scattered as she writes more stories. How is he linked to faking it : scripted, robotic trying really hard, has very awkward, intellectual jokes, weird latin phrases. Generates an image, persona: philip, maitland & cumberland, charles.
