The Years- Literary Form Flashcards
1
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Form
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Uses form to show disillusion of the private and public
2
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Family saga
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Deploys family saga
Most popular as it is set within the genre rather than experimental
3
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Use of the familiar
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Popular form to scrutinise boundaries between private life and institutions of public life
4
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Novel genre
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Detective novel- interrogates truth of characters and institutions
5
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Use of the ordinary
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Uses the ordinary to show society at the time like Lawrence
6
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Time
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Never has a recurring time frame.
Never based on the entire year but more on a moment - temporality
Importance on individual experience rather than context
‘Darkness reigned over’
