Teaching talk, never let me go
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ENGL 103, Spring 2011, Never Let Me Go
INTRODUCTION:Kazuo Ishiguro’sNever Let Me Go
Literary Dystopias+ Reading Fiction
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Part One
Literary Dystopias
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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]
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Dystopia
Greek terms for “bad-” and “place” or “landscape”
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Ordering of the Story
Utopia: here and there (Place)
Dystopia: now and then (Time)
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Brave New World, published 1932
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, published 1949
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The Handmaid’s Tale, published 1985
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Scene from The Matrix (Dir. A. and L. Wachowski, 1999)
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Part Two
Reading Narrative Fiction
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Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.
TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author
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Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.
TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator
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Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.
TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator• Character
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Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.
TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator• Character• Narratee
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Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.
TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator• Character• Narratee• Reader
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• 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
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• 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