Diversity and Literature Final

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Underreading

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

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Overreading

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

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Gaps

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

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Cruxes

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

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Implied author

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

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Reliability

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

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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

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Voice

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

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Focalization

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

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Distance

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

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Narrator

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

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Direct Discourse

"I was intent on passing my English exam"

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Indirect discourse

"He was intent on passing his English exam"

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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?'"

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Key rhetorical elements of narration

Voice, Focalization, Distance

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Theme

Abstract

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Motif

Concrete

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Intertextuality

Multiple texts that are linked to each other

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Allusion

One text hinting at other text(s)

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

The Odyssey & Dante's Divine Comedy

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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)

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Themes of "O Brother Where Art Thou?"

Religion/faith, redemption, betrayl

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Motifs of "O Brother Where Art Thou?"

Fire, music, dance

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Diegetic sound

the sound that takes place within the film

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Non-diegetic sound

Music that's outside the world of the film

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Intersecting

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

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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"

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Duration and pace

Act of reading vs. watching a film

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Character

Challenges of representing internal states in film

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Figurative language

Challenge of translating metaphor

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