Outline: The Big Sleep
Introduction: - Thesis: broad and meaningful - define terms - link to module - link to rubric - introduce texts
Topic sentences: - insightful
Body: - genre theorist - context and values - conventions - techniques and quotes
Study:
- read over your essay and familiarise yourself with your wording
- have discussions
- Figure out the arguments in your head
- practise exams
- don’t just Know the material REALLY UNDERSTAND it
The Big Sleep
Observation: - conventions that are constant throughout generations of crime fiction genre (passion, detachment, love, hope, justice) are a reflection on the timeless and universal human needs - conventions …show more content…
Context: 1950’s audience can critique broken society and judge morality of characters Convention: - Conforms to traditional structure of c/f: red herrings, witnesses, investigation, unveiling of mystery - Lack of narration; no point of view; audience critique characters - E.G. Marlowe, womanizer, heavy drinker, blatant disrespect for authority and the law, “I don’t know what I am going to tell them- but it will be pretty close to the truth” retain a degree of morality, reproach toward reprehensible behaviour, “my, my, my, so many guns for so few brains.” Reflects ambivalent noir concept that everything good is tainted with evil Observation and theorist: - Convoluted plotline makes the audience “objective viewer” - Critique the broken society and the morality of characters - Livingston, “different genres are concerned with different world views…”
Universal 1. Conform Context: common timeless human desires transcend context and audience and hence are constant throughout generations of crime …show more content…
Post-colonial text; exposure to different culture; challenges Western perspective of crime fiction genre
- Barthes, “it is in relation to other texts within a genre rather then in relation to lived experiences that we make sense of certain events within a text.”
- Cohen, “Genres are open categories. Each member alters the genre by adding, contradicting or changing constituents, especially those members most closely related to it.”
2. Challenges not only our understanding of the genre, but also our perception of the world around us
- Berger: “Never again will a single story be told as though it were only the one”.
3. Crime fiction can be a means of contextual political and philosophical discussion
- The subjectivity of truth
- Nihilism and post-modernism
Techniques
1.
Context: - socio-political context 1980’s Sri Lanka - multifaceted civil war - unimaginable for a western audience – but can relate to universal themes
Convention:
- Mystery as a medium for Anil’s quest for her identity - Ambiguous characterisation forces reader to share in her frustration and confusion - Refuses to be defined or typecast, religious allusion, “The return of the prodigal”, “I am not a
Topic sentences: - insightful
Body: - genre theorist - context and values - conventions - techniques and quotes
Study:
- read over your essay and familiarise yourself with your wording
- have discussions
- Figure out the arguments in your head
- practise exams
- don’t just Know the material REALLY UNDERSTAND it
The Big Sleep
Observation: - conventions that are constant throughout generations of crime fiction genre (passion, detachment, love, hope, justice) are a reflection on the timeless and universal human needs - conventions …show more content…
Context: 1950’s audience can critique broken society and judge morality of characters Convention: - Conforms to traditional structure of c/f: red herrings, witnesses, investigation, unveiling of mystery - Lack of narration; no point of view; audience critique characters - E.G. Marlowe, womanizer, heavy drinker, blatant disrespect for authority and the law, “I don’t know what I am going to tell them- but it will be pretty close to the truth” retain a degree of morality, reproach toward reprehensible behaviour, “my, my, my, so many guns for so few brains.” Reflects ambivalent noir concept that everything good is tainted with evil Observation and theorist: - Convoluted plotline makes the audience “objective viewer” - Critique the broken society and the morality of characters - Livingston, “different genres are concerned with different world views…”
Universal 1. Conform Context: common timeless human desires transcend context and audience and hence are constant throughout generations of crime …show more content…
Post-colonial text; exposure to different culture; challenges Western perspective of crime fiction genre
- Barthes, “it is in relation to other texts within a genre rather then in relation to lived experiences that we make sense of certain events within a text.”
- Cohen, “Genres are open categories. Each member alters the genre by adding, contradicting or changing constituents, especially those members most closely related to it.”
2. Challenges not only our understanding of the genre, but also our perception of the world around us
- Berger: “Never again will a single story be told as though it were only the one”.
3. Crime fiction can be a means of contextual political and philosophical discussion
- The subjectivity of truth
- Nihilism and post-modernism
Techniques
1.
Context: - socio-political context 1980’s Sri Lanka - multifaceted civil war - unimaginable for a western audience – but can relate to universal themes
Convention:
- Mystery as a medium for Anil’s quest for her identity - Ambiguous characterisation forces reader to share in her frustration and confusion - Refuses to be defined or typecast, religious allusion, “The return of the prodigal”, “I am not a