So after our mid-term evaluations I realized how much I focused on form in many of my posts. Along with form, Hutcheon seemed to be the one theorists that stuck with me most so I’m trying really hard to pull everything together. I know I’m leaning more towards Fight Club because that was the novel that interested me the most, yet I’m still not sure what the heck I’m going to write this paper about. That narration in Fight Club is what attracted me, and I’m stuck trying to piece it all together into a paper topic. So now that I’ve got all of my favorites down I should try to make sense of them.
- The narration of Fight Club compared to traditional first person narration (which I’m having trouble finding sources on)
- Hutcheon’s idea of Mimesis-(attempt to represent the real/giving readers access to the “real” as a duplication) The narration in Fight Club is giving us access to the “real” of Tyler and the narrator’s two worlds.
I’m just not sure whether or not I can find enough information to move me through this paper or to work out these ideas. I found a few books in the library:
Michael Smith, Understanding unreliable narrators: reading between the lines in the literature classroom.
Gary Fireman, Narrative and the consciousness.
Katherine Synder, Bachelors, manhood, and the novel. (not sure how helpful either of these will be but I’m going to try and skim them a little first)
That’s were I stand as of now. I’m hoping that by tomorrow I will have a more solid topic to work with!
