Class Notes about Collage

Title: Our/Secret

inclusive/exclusive

could be "our secret get your own"

Methods:

Collage

Juxtapose

Opposition

Discourse

Comparing 2 unlike things with metaphors.

Secrets-->Nucleus (inside, protected)

Mixes academic writing with creativity

Scientific part of academy, scientific writing: Fact, objective

she signals a change in discourse with word "like" comparing two things, which is verboten in scientific writing. She uses a similie

uses emotive adjectives "precious" which is a value word

griffin as a writer is not only interested in combining different stories and facts, she also interested in combining different discourses (languages of the field)

Inclusive & Exclusive discourses

the allow some people in and exclude other people, this method of juxtaposing different discoures together becomes part of her subject matter.

Who are we? How would a psychologist answer, how would a historian answer? Using different discourses

How does this change the lens through which we look at the problem??

First paragraph

begins narrative

what they talk about is intimate but the set up tells us a good deal about the nature of their relationship, set up as an interview (certainly not a couple of friends talking about the past)

"Darkness" revealing her past, but doing it under the cover of darkness; Anonimity

"The space between us grows larger" the woman is no longer there, she's some place else (elsewhere) the idea of DISTANCE

"Outside, the sea has disappeared" -->Epistomology

i'm writing about her, and i'm thinking about her, but i'm also thinking about Epistomology: the study of knowledge (how do we know what we know)

Senses: if youre at the developmental stage where you have to see it touch it feel it, and the sea disappeares (it is actually gone) if you're at the next stage you know it exists because the world is now a place yyou know through your senses AND your experiences. Events that we can only know in a fragmentary way (the past) we can make sense of with our own experiences.

Himmler

an example of exploration of the past

Journal: even though its a diary it doesn't contain thoughts, feelings, secrets, emotions

as a historian she can reports what she finds, but she can't do much more so she switches discourses

What would a psychologist say?

what did he dad do? (fact or fiction--Fiction) invented by the writer to fill in the blanks to give shape to that darkness

First paragraph pg 303

verbs change from conditional: who, what, why?

As a writer she's trying to imagine that place herself, and then tries to PLACE the reader there.

As the paragraph moves forward it gets quicker more insistent.

The way thorough which we manipulate reality for representation is it positive or negative?

1st Missile paragraph

V-1 rocket in its attempt to be neutral it masks "Vengeance Weapon" it masks that science doesn't think about the consequences. The language makes us complicit with violence.

Threads:

What kind of damage is done through parenting, the relationship between parenting and upbringing