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ancientrimer · 6 months ago

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i can't believe this keeps happening to me. i figure out a theory i think i might want to apply in my thesis, go look at the text that has the theory, and find that that text already mentions jane eyre

#DORRIT COHN WHEN I GET YOU #i'm trying to apply discordant narration bc i'm really realising how significant the judgements of the narrative voice are #for our understanding of the story #but cohn already said that the narrator's judgement are concordant with the overall story #which obviously. it's an “autobiography”#i'm not really sure how to angle this??#bc on the one hand it really makes sense to comment on how the narrative voice is the one that makes judgement statements most of the time #which are what one might say mostly relates to contemporary discourse #(along with pure description)#but it feels too risky bc it may start to sound like i'm saying that the narrative voice is expressing brontë's judgements #which is not what i mean at all #this is what i get for trying to write a historically contextualising thesis (not actually my thing)#narration is actually more my thing which is why i keep ending up back there #oh. that's what this is #i'm subconsciously trying to change the angle of the thesis to be about narration #fuck this is another completely separate essay isn't it #if you never hear from me again it's because i drowned in new essay ideas that can only come to fruition if i do a phd (not in my plans)#(at least not for another decade)#jag borde ha vetat att det här skulle hända

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