teaching talk, never let me go
TRANSCRIPT
ENGL 103, Spring 2011, Never Let Me Go
INTRODUCTION:Kazuo Ishiguro’sNever Let Me Go
Literary Dystopias+ Reading Fiction
Part One
Literary Dystopias
Illustration: Woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein for a 1518 edition of Utopia.
Utopia, Thomas More (1516)
Greek terms for ou-topos [no place]and eu-topos [good place]
Dystopia
Greek terms for “bad-” and “place” or “landscape”
Brave New World, published 1932
Nineteen Eighty-Four, published 1949
The Handmaid’s Tale, published 1985
Scene from The Matrix (Dir. A. and L. Wachowski, 1999)
Part Two
5 Terms for Reading Narrative Fiction
(The “Story World”)
Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.
5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author
Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.
5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator
Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.
5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator• Character
Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.
5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator• Character• Narratee
Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.
5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator• Character• Narratee• Reader
• Author:
• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative
• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator:
• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator)
• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character:
• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought
• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought• Narratee:
• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought• Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world
• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought• Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world• Reader:
• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought• Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world• Reader: always outside of the story world; receives the narrative
• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator)
• Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world
ASSIGNMENT: Narrator and Narratee