ENG 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sliding Glass Door, Thermal Power Stations In Russia And Soviet Union

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 224
• Professor: benjaminlebevre

Document Summary

Dialogue between old and new ways of thinking. Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. Literature transforms human experience and reflect it back to us, and in that reflection, we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirror in the books. A body of work that is already known to a reader/viewer. Prior knowledge about history, geography, religion, and culture. In other words, what does each book atte(cid:373)pt to (cid:862)tea(cid:272)h(cid:863)? (cid:449)hat repertoire do the te(cid:454)ts e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)t readers to ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat gaps do they seek to fill. Trauma: opportunity to work through traumatic events of the past. Nostalgia and nationalism: focus on a more idealized past in relation to national. Any personage in a literacy work who acts, appears or is referred to as playing a part: humans, aliens.