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?
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
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.