Notes of the 17^th of April 2012

The narrator assumes the third person in the mind of the character throughout the techniques of the interior monologue and the stream of consciousness. Nothing is known about the characters, but their conscience. They identify themselves in their inner life.

The narrator doesn’t use filters, he doesn’t judge, he doesn’t guide the reader, he doesn’t make comments, he’s not intrusive. The narrator is eclipsed and employs techniques which give the reader the illusion to be inside the conscience of the character.

In the modern novel space and time are reduced to the episode the characters are living (or thinking).

The anthropology is interested in human being’s features, outside time and space. Mr. Eliot and Mr. Tennyson are interested in anthropology (they both uses the myth). Eliot needed heroic figures to be placed in the modern world and he took anthropological elements from Fraser and Weston which speak of Earth’s fertility rituals. Those are pre-Christian rituals. The Holy Grail represent the sacrifice. The myth is a reference mark in all the cultures: Christian, Indian…