This is going to be a post that will be edited now and again as I go along with this idea, in part because I am still refining my thoughts on it and in part because I don’t have all of the materials in hand today that contribute to the critical frame from which I [...]
Category Archives: The Blind Assassin
Story within a story, photo in both places
31 May 2008 – 2:33 pm
In the prologue of The Blind Assassin by Laura Chase, in The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, the ubiquitous photograph is described. Man and woman sitting under a tree, a hand cropped from the frame. The man’s face is shaded by a light colored hat, his hand outstretched (protecting himself, protecting her,) cigarette between his [...]
Calling Dr Simile
31 May 2008 – 10:21 am
The season is turning on its hinges, the earth swings farther from the light; under the roadside bushes the paper trash of summer drifts like an omen in the snow. [p222]
I’m totally at sea about the phrase, “drifts like an omen in the snow.” This is the chapter (The Imperial Room) where Iris talks about [...]
Blind Readings — an oxymoronic experience
18 May 2008 – 11:11 am
Gerard Genette wrote a book several years back called Paratexts. While I have not waded through the whole thing (yet) I have through other avenues gained some sense of his arguments/ideas. They are core components of literary theory these days, particularly when thinking about texts and reader-response to those texts. Under the [...]
