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free indirect discourse
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a style of third-person narration which combines some of the characteristics of third-person report with first-person direct speech.
IE: "He laid down his bundle and thought of his misfortune. And just what pleasure had he found, since he came into this world?" (no "he said," or "he thought"). |
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free indirect discourse examples
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Joseph Conrad (The Secret Agent) & Henry James (The Turn of the Screw)
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The Secret Agent
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Joseph Conrad
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The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
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Dulce Et Decorum Est
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Wilfred Owen
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"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
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W.B. Yeats
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"Easter 1916"
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W.B. Yeats
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"The Second Coming"
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W.B. Yeats
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"Leda and the Swan"
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W.B. Yeats
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"Lapis Lazuli"
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W.B. Yeats
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"The Circus Animals' Desertion"
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W.B. Yeats
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"The Dolls Museum in Dublin"
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Eavan Boland
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"Jeeves Takes Charge"
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P.G. Wodehouse
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"The Mark on the Wall"
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Virginia Woolf
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"Modern Fiction"
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Virginia Woolf
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"Araby"
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James Joyce
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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T.S. Eliot
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"Musée des Beaux Arts"
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W.H. Auden
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"The Shield of Achilles"
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W.H. Auden
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"Telephone Conversation"
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Wole Soyinka
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"Decolonising the Mind"
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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
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"Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist"
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Salman Rushdie
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"To Room Nineteen"
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Doris Lessing
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"Church Going"
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Philip Larkin
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"Talking in Bed"
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Philip Larkin
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"High Windows"
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Philip Larkin
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"Homage to a Government
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Philip Larkin
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"This Be the Verse"
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Philip Larkin
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"A Far Cry from Africa"
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Derek Walcott
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"Midsummer"
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Derek Walcott
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"Scholar and Gypsy"
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Anita Desai
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"The Real Inspector Hound"
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Tom Stoppard
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"The Remains of the Day"
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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"At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers"
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Salman Rushdie
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"The Courter"
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Salman Rushdie
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"A Distant Shore"
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Caryl Phillips
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Irony
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Highlights the difference between what is claimed and what is true, usually with a touch of the absurd.
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Examples of irony:
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The Secret Agent, how to end starvation: cannibalism
The Secret Agent, cab sequence, cabbie is raised above the world of his fares with a raised seat, but socially he is far beneath them. |
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Antinomy
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Contradiction or opposition between two elements, such as rich/poor, male/female, etc.
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Examples of Antinomy
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"The Second Coming" by Yeats (?)
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Satire
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In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement.
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Examples of Satire:
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" - Oscar Wilde uses satire to ridicule marriage, love and the mentality of the Victorian aristocratic society.
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Double-consciousness
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The term is used to describe an individual whose identity is divided into several facets.
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Examples of double-consciousness
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Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Ishiguro
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stream of consciousness
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writing as a person would think, not necessarily coherently or logically, just writing anything that comes to mind
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examples of stream of consciousness
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The Mark on the Wall - Woolf
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examples of fragmentation
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series of interruptions as in "Mark on the Wall," to emphasize that life is not linear/symmetrical, and organization isn't necessarily pleasing to the eye
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hybridity
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Anything that is a combination of two or more things.
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examples of hybridity
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Woolf - "The Mark on the Wall" mixes drama & fiction (genre)
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self-reflexivity
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draw attention to the way it's made - emphasis on its creation, "breaking the fourth wall"
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fragmentation
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The formal and thematic breaking apart of clear chronological succession (as in narrative) and/or a singular, clear image.
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bricolage
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Combination of things that already exist, using pop culture references or taking pieces from existing literature.
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examples of bricolage
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Salman Rushdie in "The Auction of the Ruby Slippers"
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collage?
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putting seemingly disparate parts/images next to each other to make something new
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