M & D Deep Duck, deeper into the Audience.

[Mark Kohut]

yeahp and so nicely said.
We are clued to the Fantastic in the Tale [obviously "unreliable' as
history]yet surely very revealing, as well as given
an overarching narrator as patterned---mythic---insights.

In Gulliver's Travels there is a scene where Gulliver produces
something--bit of reality from his visits to strange Lands---for his
peers to show the 'truth' of his Fantastic stories.

Scheherezade
The nucleus of these stories is formed by an old Persian book called
the Thousand Myths (Persian: هزارافسانه - Hezār-afsāne / هزارافسان -
Hezār-afsān‎).


On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Heikki > Cherrycoke an outsider surrounded (and at least temporarily
> sheltered) ...
>
> Mark > If he doesn't keep Them entertained, his storytelling is over.
>
> Did I hear someone call for the queen of stories?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade
>
> M&D demands in the opening pages that we go beyond "unreliable narrator" to
> "multiply motivated narrator with something (here, boys) for everyone
> (thanks, 'Brae) ." And as soon as we get our footing there, it starts
> layering of "as told by/to" (and why?)
>
> Fancy narratollogical footwork: a dance of 777 veils, a rout, a Mischianza
> (p. 6).
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As we have discussed, Rev Cherrycoke is telling his story--
>> "Why haven't we heard a Tale about America?", sez Pitt, licking Pudding"
>> to three young 'uns, Pitt, Pliny and Tenebrae. If he doesn't keep Them
>> entertained, his storytelling is over.
>>
>> They want History perhaps as it gets told to 'the masses', we
>> Americans who get their
>> news, even their history as tabloid, so to speak. Full of
>> stereotypical preconceptions---
>> 'Frenchwomen!" and 'if it bleeds, it leads"..."A Hanging!".....
>>
>> I suggest that this is P's way of saying that our known US history is
>> stereotypical, biased,
>> shallow, appeals to emotions, not truth, etc.
>>
>> Whatever other associations Cherrycoke has, it would seem TRP lays him
>> out carefully
>> in this perspective.
>>
>> The overarching narrator moves us closer to the patterns of historical
>> reality.
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