Setting Flashcards
Time and place in the fiction, drama, poetry
setting
“Araby”
James Joyce
“The Birth-Mark,”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Hills Like White Elephants,”
Ernest Hemingway
“The Yellow Wall-Paper,”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Jury of Her Peers.
Susan Glaspell
When the action depicted in the work supposedly took place=temporal setting
Plot time
When the author originally created or published a literary work
Author time
When the narrator in a work of fiction supposedly narrates the story
Narrator time
When the actual reader reads the work
Reader/audience time
Plot time is earlier than the time the work was written
Historical fiction
time + place of whole work
general setting
Establish mood, situation, and character
Suggest conflict or theme
Functions of setting
The place in which action unfolds
Spatial setting
time/plot time
Temporal setting
work often involves magic or supernatural
Fantasy
work involves the creation of a fictional world in which the kind of familiar, plausible action and character one might find in more straightforwardly realist fiction coexist with utterly fantastic ones straight out of myths or dreams
Magic realism
Vague setting: e.g. archetypal setting
