ENG140Y1 Lecture 20: 20 Scoucouyant 2
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Form; often refers to genre or type of literature, or patterns of metre: form alternatively descends from forma", meaning idea, readings of form: entwined plots in arcadia, narrative/perspective order of. Beloved, line breaks in modern and normal etc. Narration and the excluded, i. e. immigrants, the elderly, the disabled . Fragments, poetry, images vs. the big story . Soucouyant and novel form: the bildungsroman: bildungsroman traces a linear arc of personal development, comme david. Copper eld; such a thing as an immigrant bildungsroman. Steam of consciousness narrative/realism and naturism: rough and choppy; dif cult to navigate. Novel is interested in exploring a fragmented consciousness: fractured identity. Fragment from a caribbean tale: refers to race and colonialism; addresses the reader"s lack of knowledge. Scoucoyant, dementia, etc: word dementia not given to us outright, we never know exactly the cause or cure for adele"s condition. Frustrating for the narrator as a child.
