ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Michael Crummey, Elizabeth Bowen, Flash Fiction
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How they change the genre to their own cultural and aesthetic needs. Traditional plot/pattern: canadian writers challenge certain unique or single effect plurality, diversity generate multiple layers of meaning and effects. His definition is a limited understanding of the genre, everything concentrated on certain details for the development of a limited plot. It was influential in terms of thinking about the genre, stresses what the genre cannot do as opposed to what it could do, emphasizes the unity of this single effect/culmination to a single moment. Narrative reflects the way authors innovate the genre/what it can accommodate; short doesn"t mean restrictive and don"t follow a traditional structure. Sense of a growing and deepening relationship even though we don"t know their names, physical actions tell us their personality, details with fewer words. First person shares intimate things, stoical (stoicism) in the face of their reality. Notable tension what we know and don"t know (once its over)
