Lecture 11

8/24/98


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Lecture 11

Readings

Prose rhythm,

Prose rhythm: Effect of Leech & Short’s Method

Extract from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

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Importance of Grammatical Units

Importance of Words

Further considerations in spelling / orthography:

Graphology

Wider definition of orthography

Unconventional Spelling: Examples from Wuthering Heights (Chapter 20)

Another example fromWuthering Heights (from your textbook)

A word of caution:

POINT OF VIEW IN NARRATIVE FICTION:

Reading

Narrator & Author

Implied Author

Two Types of Narrators:

First-Person & Third-Person: Premodifying Noun

First-Person & Third-Person: Meaning of Premodifying Noun

1st Person Narrators

3rd Person Narrators

The ‘Objective’ Third-Person Narrator.

The Limited Third-Person Narrator.

The Omniscient Third-Person Narrator.

Extract from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: 1st/3rd Person ?

Extract from Günther Grass' The Tin Drum : 1st/3rd Person ?

From Henry Fielding's Tom Jones : 1st/3rd Person ?

The Beginning of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady : 1st/3rd Person ?

Discourse Situation

The elements in a narrative which the author's story must go through, or is deflected by, before it reaches us:

Two examples of 1st Person Narratives

Extract from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

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Extract from Günther Grass' The Tin Drum

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Two examples of 3st Person Narratives

From Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

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The Beginning of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady

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The beginning of Mrs Gaskell's Wives and Daughters

The beginning of Mrs Gaskell's Wives and Daughters

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Author: Dr Ismail S Talib

Email: ellibst@leonis.nus.edu.sg

Home Page: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellibst/lit-stya.html

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