University:
University of Iowa
Course:
ENGL12000001 | The Interpretation of Literature
Academic year:

2023
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310

Pages:

3
Author:

Drew Rocha

Her Body and Other Parties -analapsis = flash back -prolapsis = flash forward -red herring = literary device meant to distract the reader from the true plot -short story = 1000-4000 words -Edgar Allen Poe = read in one sitting -Short-short stories = stories less than 1000 words -Flash fictions -Novella = 5000 words/“Especially Heinous” -Temporal/activating event -Elements of short story -Conflict ---> Climax ---> Resolution/denouement -Characters -1-2 characters -characterization clearly set at the beginning -The conflict -One major event that drives the plot of the story -Conflict of Mothers = Bad leaving the baby -Setting = -Mood = Particular feeling or emotion the reader feels -Husband stitch = erotic, -Structure -Linear -The husband stitch except for stories -Happening in chronological order -Non-chronological -Out-of-time -Point of view -First person -Mothers and Husband Stitch told through -Singular -I/me -Plural -We/us -Second person -Distance -You -Third person -He/she/they -Limited -Only know a little about characters and their motives -Omniscient -Narrator knows everything about characters -Referred to as “God narrator” -Unreliable narrators = narrator who is untrustworthy -Carmen Maria Muchado -Speculative fiction = broad genre encompassing fiction with certain elements that do not exist in the real world, often in the context of supernatural, futuristic or other imaginative themes -Subvert taboo or low brow genres (erotic fiction, sci-fi, horror) into high literary stories -Fiction with something out of place that the characters do not always respond to -Husband Stitch = Ribbon -Sub genres -Horror -Fantasy -Sci-fi -Etc. -What does the ribbon symbolize -Inherit danger and burden of all female bodies -Violence to female bodies -Symbolic in reader being implicated in danger in story

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