Teaching talk, never let me go

ENGL 103, Spring 2011, Never Let Me Go

INTRODUCTION:Kazuo Ishiguro’sNever Let Me Go

Literary Dystopias+ Reading Fiction

Part One

Literary Dystopias

Illustration: Woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein for a 1518 edition of Utopia.

Utopia, Thomas More (1516)

Greek terms for ou-topos [no place]and eu-topos [good place]

Dystopia

Greek terms for “bad-” and “place” or “landscape”

Brave New World, published 1932

Nineteen Eighty-Four, published 1949

The Handmaid’s Tale, published 1985

Scene from The Matrix (Dir. A. and L. Wachowski, 1999)

Part Two

5 Terms for Reading Narrative Fiction

(The “Story World”)

Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.

5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author

Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.

5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator

Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.

5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator• Character

Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.

5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator• Character• Narratee

Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print.

5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION• Author• Narrator• Character• Narratee• Reader

• Author:

• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative

• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator:

• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator)

• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character:

• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought

• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought• Narratee:

• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought• Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world

• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought• Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world• Reader:

• Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought• Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world• Reader: always outside of the story world; receives the narrative

• Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator)

• Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world

ASSIGNMENT: Narrator and Narratee