Notes on J.R. O'Shea's class (short story/essay)

J.R. O’Shea                                      

Short story – 5th 10 2000

Background:   poetry ≠ prose

                        verse ≠ prose -> poetic prose

narrative – prose           narratology

Old traditional story

Parables

Satyricon

Fables/romances

Anglo-saxon 1. Consonants pronounced 2. Continental vowels

Chaucer – Canterbury Tales 1385-1400

(wrote in English not in latin)

Montaigne’s essays (1571-86)                   {to essay/to try}

Sketches – 16^th century                          {chronicle – historical document} anglo-saxon 871/1154

Addison/Steele 1709 spectator tattler

Novel – Clarissa Harlow – early 18^th century (uprise of bourgeoisie)

segment of life

[Slice of life – Anton Tchekhov – Joyce picks it up] 

Virginia Woolf mark on the wall revealing of character

Mood = atmosphere        tone = author’s voice

Showing -> narrator describes how it happened

Telling -> narrator reports what happened      (Wayne Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction)

                                                                                           climax

                                                                      comparison                fall act

* Gustav Freytag Pyramid            exposition                                                  unravelling

* Aristotle -> Homer/Epic/in media res/chronologically       beginning – middle – end