Diversity and Literature Final

Underreading

Underreading

Excluding parts of a narrative from our interpretation; "passing over" words, phrases, ideas, or other cues - intentionally or unintentionally

Overreading

Finding "qualities, motives, moods, ideas, judgments, event events for which there is no direct evidence in the discourse"

Gaps

What the reader fills in with reasonable support from the text itself

Cruxes

Critical points on omission the reader must fill in with few or no cues from the text of a narritveI

Implied author

"What the author projects as (s)he write and what the reader infers as (s)he reads

Reliability

Whether or not a reader can trust the narrator's perceptions

Free indirect style

Fluid mode of 3rd-person narration that floats in and out of characters' minds and/or shifts among different voices of characters in the narrative of ten without quotation marks

Voice

What we "hear"; sense of there personality of the narrator, even in 2nd or 3rd person POV

Focalization

"Lens through which we see characters and events in the narrative"

Distance

Narrators emotional distance from the characters and action; degree of his/her involvement in the story

Narrator

An instrument, a construction, or a device wielded by the author

Direct Discourse

"I was intent on passing my English exam"

Indirect discourse

"He was intent on passing his English exam"

Direct thought

"As soon as he heard about how tough the teacher was, he wondered 'Have I studied enough to do well on the exam?'"

Key rhetorical elements of narration

Voice, Focalization, Distance

Theme

Abstract

Motif

Concrete

Intertextuality

Multiple texts that are linked to each other

Allusion

One text hinting at other text(s)

What stories are "O Brother Where Art Thou?" adaptations of?

The Odyssey & Dante's Divine Comedy

Allusions from "O Brother Where Art Thou?"

Sheriff Cooley (OBWAT) & Prison Guard (Cool Hands Luke), Movie theatre scenes from OBWAT and Sullivans Travels, Tommy's rescue from the KKK (OBWAT) & Dorthy's rescue from the Wicked Witch (Wizard of Oz), KKK (OBWAT) & the Witches guard (Wizard of Oz)

Themes of "O Brother Where Art Thou?"

Religion/faith, redemption, betrayl

Motifs of "O Brother Where Art Thou?"

Fire, music, dance

Diegetic sound

the sound that takes place within the film

Non-diegetic sound

Music that's outside the world of the film

Intersecting

Trying to come as close as possible to original narrative in a film

Transforming

Drawing upon cinematic techniques "both to remain faithful to the original and at the same time make a full transformation of it in the new medium"

Duration and pace

Act of reading vs. watching a film

Character

Challenges of representing internal states in film

Figurative language

Challenge of translating metaphor