Notes for 12 January 2016
LITCS 114
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016
- First, let's take another look at some of the issues in Cane
- On Gilman ...
- Warm-up: playing the
about
game in multiple ways: what is the story about
?
- What plot events happen in the story?
- What thematic concerns does the story have?
- What does the story tell us about its author, about its temporal and geographical situation, about other circumstantial elements?
- What can we say about the narrator's mental state?
- Where does the power lie in the story's situation?
- Who wields it and how?
- How is the power in the story constructed?
- Who is complicit? How?
- What are we to make of the wallpaper?
- symbol, objective correlative, character, setting?
- how does it interact with the other elements in the story? How does it drive the plot forward?
- Starting on Chopin ...
- What are the multiple awakenings that Edna has begun to have? How has she
been asleep
so far?
- Why do you think I ended today's reading selection where I did?
- The short narrative suspension of ch. VI: what happens here with narrative time?
- How does Edna's gender inflect the ways in which her actions are understood, made meaningful?
- What do we take Chopin's critical task to be?
- Today's whiteboard snapshots