So, was the natural description a kind of grounding, in that context of disorientation? That’s a very, I think, perceptive take on what he’s doing in the novel. So, that was really confusing and disorienting, but I also really liked it, mostly because of the descriptive language that was used, particularly when referring to–I felt like he captured the environment really well, so I enjoyed it. Student: I guess it found it a little disorienting, because of all the names that were introduced quickly at the beginning, and jumping around in a different time, and also referencing the dead people as being alive. How did you respond to it? How did it make you feel as a reader? What was the experience like? What did you notice? So, who can tell me what they noticed? Yes. And I’ll tell you about those in a minute, but before I pursue that line of argument, which today will take a somewhat narrow scope and on Wednesday will take in the whole of the novel, I just want to hear from you, a little bit, about what reading this novel was like, just in a simple way. In the two lectures that I have planned, I’m going to take up fairly abstract questions, because I think this novel, for all its wealth of detail, calls for an address to these couple of questions. Professor Amy Hungerford: Today, of course I’m going to talk about The Known World, the second-to-last of our novels. Initial Student Reactions: The Known World in the Wake of Morrison The American Novel Since 1945 ENGL 291 - Lecture 22 - Edward P.
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