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