Read up through Realism in the text.
James Joyce...author/contemporary
It's as if the growing trust in science validates and answers the questions we may have.
General INTEREST...in science...bring scientific approaches to literature.
The idea of time changes...used to be based upon the natural world...sun, moon, bird migration...weather cycles.
But, in modern times, seconds off could really ruin a train schedule as trains could run into each other or how they have set times of arrivals and departures.
stream of consciousness type of writing....a narrative, weaving the tale as your mind navigates all the input...what territory are their own territories?
What theories explain the validation of modern writing?
Technology infringes on time
....sometimes the writers try to get inside the heads of modern people and what it's like to live in these times.(the flow of imagination...)
Photographs
Telephones
Internet
Films
Digital TV
Books on tape!
yet, Literature stands apart as an entity alone...used to reign supreme before all this modern tech arrived on the scene!
All the philosophies still thrive...just newer theories change as our valuation of literature changes.
IDEA FOR FINAL:
2 questions perhaps
address the questions: What is Literary Criticism and why does it matter?
it tries to say "what is literature good for?"
writers want to engage people in their environments...tell more about them, illuminate what may be going on behind the scenes..the real-deal or not
Then, the reader gets to inhabit that world even for just a temporary time
"An imaginary garden with real toads in it!"
Tom Wolfe, author....hip, high-style writer
does huge amounts of research...journalist and Fiction (Bonfire of the Vanities)
"....you can't make fiction more wild than real-life..."more recently...the Rise of Ethnic Literature
-the whole world is open to us now...
Dr. Nelson reads us a short story: "On Hope"
Then..."Happy Endings".....HILARIOUS!! Margaret Atwood...splenderiferous!
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