LIVE! #2
5 September 2018
Agenda
- Why We're Here / Roundtable Rules
- Introduction to Literary Forensics
- Group Discussion
- Further Study
Why We're Here
We writers want to improve our craft
by reading like a writer
We learn from each other
using Literary Forensics
Roundtable Rules
Always refer back to the book
Practice active listening & serendipity
Every feeling and observation is valid...
but not every conclusion
Always refer back to the book
Reading Teaches Writing
What do you feel?
What in the book elicited that feeling?
Every feeling and observation is valid...
but every conclusion should be questioned
We practice serendipity
- nothing is too crazy
Always refer back to the book
What do you notice?
Less - Stats
- Marketing: Literary, Satire, Humorous, Gay Fiction
- Genre: Realistic Present-Day, Archplot, Long-Form Comedy
- Word count: 72,697
- Print Pages: 273
- Tense: Present
- POV: Narrator: 1st & 3rd
- Publish date: July 18, 2017
- Imprint: Lee Boudreaux Books
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
- Seller: Hachette Book Group
- Awards: Pulitzer Prize 2018
- 7 possible Plot Types:
- Overcoming the Monster
- Rags to Riches
- The Quest
- Voyage and Return
- Comedy
- Tragedy
- Rebirth
- 4 possible Story Types:
- Milieu
- Idea
- Character
- Event
Ulysses (Odysseus the Cunning) - Homer
- King of Ithaca
- Father: Laërtes (or maybe bought from Sisyphus)
- Grandfather: Hermes
- Wife: Penelope
- Son: Telemachus
- 1. Tries to avoid the Trojan War
- - Feigning madness: yokes an ox & ass behind a plow
- - Sanity revealed when he avoids killing his son
- 2. 20-year Odyssey
- - Trojan War: 10 years
- - Trying to get home: 10 years
- - Kalypso captivates him for 7 years
- - Avoids Sirens' song, navigates between Scylla and Charybdis
- - Fools Cyclops, pretending his name is 'Nobody'
- - Hermes gives Ulysses drug 'Moly' to counteract Circe's magic
- 3. Upon return:
- - Not recognizable at first: known only by his dog, Argos
- - Then the housekeeper recognizes him by scar on foot
- - Bends the bow of Apollo, knows wife's bed's construction
Ulysses - James Joyce (1922)
- Leopold Bloom wanders around Dublin in a single day, June 16, 1904
- - Stephen Dedalus = Telemachus = James Joyce
- - Leopold Bloom = Ulysses
- - Molly Bloom (Marion Tweedy) = Penelope
- - Molly's lover: Blazes Boylan
- In 3 Parts
- - Telemachia (Episodes 1-3)
- - Odyssey (Episodes 4-15)
- - Nostos (Episodes 16-18)
The Old Capital - Yasunari Kawabata (1962)
- Twin sisters Chieko and Naeko, separated at birth
- Themes: old versus new/young, the souring illusions of love
Guliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (1726)
- Voyage to Lilliput (midgets); Voyage to Brobdingnag (giants)
- Brobdingnag is 6,000 wide; sits between Japan and California
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne (1873)
- Englishman Phileas Fogg and French valet, Passepartout, vie for £20,000 prize
- Misses by a day, but Aouda wants to marry penniless Fogg anyway, for love
- Because of International Dateline, they recover a day and win the prize
Contour Map - Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
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