ENG 1120 Lecture 2: ENG1120 Lecture 2

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Erin Kean

Document Summary

Close reading as an interpretive skill- we need to use close reading tools (like characterization) to create our own critical analysis of texts. Bartleby the scrivener: bartle(cid:271)y (cid:272)ontinuously says (cid:862)i prefer not to(cid:863) in a pla(cid:272)e that is so alienating. So the story is from his own point of view because he is speaking in the first person: overall heartbreaking story, the goal is to reveal something about bartleby, but also to reveal something about himself. Before he introduces bartleby, he talks about himself first: (cid:862)i would prefer not to(cid:863) although he says this he still does it, never actually declines, kind of forceful. Refers to the various means by which an author described and develops characters in a literary work. Static characters: do not change significantly over the course of a work, no matter what action takes place. Dynamic characters change (for better or worse) in response to circumstance and experience.