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Contemporary Lit Midterm
Possession, Beloved, Love Medicine, Atonement, So Far From God, Blind Assassin, Soul Mountain
20
English
Undergraduate 4
10/15/2012

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A.S. Byatt
Definition

Possession

influenced by Victorian Lit, T.S. Eliot, Murdock

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Possession meaning
Definition

Roland has to have the letters

Roland academically possessed by Ash

how is the present able to possess/know the past

physical/sexual between: Ash&Christabel, Roland&Maud

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Roland Mitchell
Definition

stuck, can't get job, sick of gf

passionate about Ash and his letters

latecomer to doctorate

name: Hero of mideval romance

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Randolf Henry Ash
Definition

name: of the past

victorian writer

Browning-like man of his time

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James Blackadder
Definition

name: snake, viscious

editor for works on Ash

successful scholar and professor

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Fergus Wolf
Definition

name: sexual predator/takes job opportunities

deconstructive discussions

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Christabel LaMotte
Definition

name: ellusive

victorian writer

possibly bi-sexual

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Maud Bailey
Definition

name: elegant and icy

green--colder color but appreciation for nature/life

not overly feminine or masculine

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Mortimer Cropper
Definition
American competition to Ash scholars
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Biatrice Nest

Leonora Stern

George & Joan Bailey

Ellen Ash

Blanche Glover

Definition

Researcher of Mrs. Ash, helpmate

American scholar of Christabel, edgy

related to Maud and Christabel

shadowy, poet, important to Nest

joural-writer, paintings, friend of Christabel

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Garden of Proserpina
Definition

from Possession

Ash

theft of apples

reflects theft of letters

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Ragnarok
Definition

from Possession

Ash

norse mythology/dieties

more scientific, issues, origins

born of sky/celestial

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Melusina
Definition

from Possession

LaMotte

1/2 woman, 1/2 monster

psychoanalytic

room of own (to write and keep to herself)

narrative

mysterious, powerful, scary, strange

female powers (seductive, feared)

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The Glass Coffin
Definition

from Possession

Roland reads it

tailor and key

woman contained and has to be freed

willing to take risk = ability to do art

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Swammerdam
Definition

from Possession

Ash--poem

subject is man who invented microscope

copy sent to Christabel and "destroyed"
really stolen and later given to Mrs. Ash 

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Toni Morrison
Definition

Beloved

influenced by Fulkner

works deal with taboos

stream of consciousness, lyrical, magic realist, strong moral sensibility, multiple narrators

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oral tradition
Definition

Beloved: griot

storytelling is survival strategy

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Pastiche
Definition

letters, poetry, fiction composed as collage of different types of writing that has been pulled together
(Possession)

putting together a picture from differing sources/voices 

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master narrative
Definition

deconstructing = dismantelling powerful, prevailing narrative/authority

shift of paradigm

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Sweet Home
Definition

plantation on which Baby Suggs, Sethe, Paul D, Sixo..etc. are slaves

allowed to marry

masters listen to slaves and give them gifts

taken over by schoolteacher

owned by Mr. and Mrs. Garner

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