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niamh.brazil:
Hello friends!

This is the thread for the English Extension Lecture July 2020

Are you eager to get feedback on your Trials thesis? Do you want to see how seamlessly you can integrate critical theory into your essay? Are you bursting with hot takes on The Secret History? This is the thread for you!

Submit your responses to the question in the slides here and I will be providing feedback throughout the lecture.

charlieadam:
Hi Niamh! I just wanted to dump my thing from the essay-ish question here (and also to say how epic your lecture has been so far!)

The construction and dissemination of one's own literary world is an intensely personal machination. It is paradoxically both introspective and performative, within which the author interpolates the foundations, ethics, and abstract experiences of their fictitious landscape and transforms it into an interactive experience between both composer and responder. In the above excerpt, Donna Tart ponders on the literary "fatal flaw"- that Achilles' heel of all good characters, pertaining to her own romanticised imagining of her childhood. By separating and reworking her personal narrative into one that engages both herself and her audience, the writer examines her fear of betraying a perceived duty to the integrity of her memories. (I ran out of time but I was getting to the point that its not a bad thing to do that!)

ellie.engel:
The composition profoundly resonates with the facet of purpose for the construction of literary worlds that revolves around portraying raw human experience to evoke ethos among the audience and provoke reflection but an individual's own personal experience. Tartt utilises lexical passages of childhood nostalgia "swimming pools and orange groves... sneakers I wore year round" to expose a visceral facet of private experience which urges the audience to reflect on their own individual experiences as a child. The use of extended sentence structure to craft a calming flow of narrative arc which encaptures the audience in a raw depiction of a private world "but also to watch television, which I did plenty of, lying on the carpet of our empty living room in the long dull afternoons after school" exposing the necessity of a private world in order for audiences to reflect.

Thank you :))

hemisha.lal:
I had a question, what should we do if our related texts does not have any critics that we can integrate and respond to enhance our responses?

niamh.brazil:

--- Quote from: charlieadam on July 14, 2020, 02:35:03 pm ---Hi Niamh! I just wanted to dump my thing from the essay-ish question here (and also to say how epic your lecture has been so far!)

The construction and dissemination of one's own literary world is an intensely personal machination. It is paradoxically both introspective and performative, within which the author interpolates the foundations, ethics, and abstract experiences of their fictitious landscape and transforms it into an interactive experience between both composer and responder. In the above excerpt, Donna Tart ponders on the literary "fatal flaw"- that Achilles' heel of all good characters, pertaining to her own romanticised imagining of her childhood. By separating and reworking her personal narrative into one that engages both herself and her audience, the writer examines her fear of betraying a perceived duty to the integrity of her memories. (I ran out of time but I was getting to the point that its not a bad thing to do that!)

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Wow! This is excellent and so eloquently phrased. You do a good job of identifying the purpose of the literary world in the extract and also a good job at drawing out the nuances in that portrayal. I would make two suggestions:

* Link to your personal perspective on the purpose of a literary world (which you have pointed out that you ran out of time to do so you're on the right track!)
* Make more explicit connections between the argument you are trying to prove and the evidence in the text - in what ways does the character's fatal flaw play into the idea of an idealised past?
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