Lesson 5 - November 19th, 2024 - Getting familiar with Written on the Body PART II

STEP 4

Going back to the second part of the extract

What is the overall effect? How is it made up? Which of the elements below play the most important role?

  • Sounds
  • Language: semantics and syntax
  • Figures of speech
  • Narrator
  • Quotations
  • Other

Who do you think the ideal reader/s is/are?

STEP 5 

What is the idea of language it makes? What language does it refer to?

Dead metaphors

Do you want to learn more?   Narrators

STEP 6

How does the message open up to possible theme/s? 

Lovers speak, and yet in doing so they are spoken by a language that precedes them, that is not at their disposal, under their control: this language is at the same time dispersed among banalities, poetry, the sacred, tragedy. Language speaks us.” (Catherine Belsey, Desire: Love stories in Western Culture, Oxford: Blackwell, p.84)

ROUND UP ON LITERARY DEVICES

Difference between ordinary and literary language

Literary Glossary

HOMEWORK

Make a list of all that you have not understood in the first 5 lessons and  bring the list with you during the next lesson.