{"id":144,"date":"2021-10-04T10:14:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/?p=144"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:16:12","slug":"detectives-and-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/2021\/10\/04\/detectives-and-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Detectives and Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weeks’ readings were so rich with literary devices I felt almost overwhelmed! One of the first things I noticed about both readings was the use of direct imagery<\/em>. While Arias’s Funeral for a Bird<\/em> and even Ak’abal’s poems used imagery kind of indirectly (very open to interpretation by the reader), Borges and Berm\u00fades explicitly describe scenes. For example, Borges describes the second scene of the crime: “the city crumbled away; the sky expanded, and now houses held less and less importance… they came to their miserable destination; a final alleyway lined with pink-coloured walls that somehow seemed to reflect the rambunctious setting of the sun” (149-150). I think what this does is make the reader so invested in every detail in the story that they can be an active participant in decoding the crime, paying attention to nuances and how they might fit into the narrative.<\/p>\n

Another particular literary device that stood out to me (and that I had to google) was internal dialogue, <\/em>the example of which is when L\u00f6nrott thinks, the house is not so large\u2026 It seems larger because of its dimness, its symmetry, its mirrors, its age, my unfamiliarity with it, and my solitude<\/em>. Internal dialogue uses italics to distinguish the character\u2019s thoughts from speech. This is the first time it is used in the entire text, and places us right in L\u00f6nrott\u2019s head, emphasizing the fact that he was alone in this big house with nothing but his thoughts. This, for me, created suspense and a bit of fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

One final literary device that I wanted to point out was allusion, which Death and the Compass<\/em> was especially rich in. Example\/Question: Red Scharlach describes how Daniel Azevedo stabbed Yarmolinsky in the chest, and says, \u201cthe movement was almost reflexive; a half century of violence had taught him that the easiest and safest way is simply to kill\u2026\u201d (155) I\u2019m not sure what he\u2019s referring to here, perhaps someone with a better knowledge of the location\/context of the story can help me out! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weeks’ readings were so rich with literary devices I felt almost overwhelmed! One of the first things I noticed about both readings was the use of direct imagery. While Arias’s Funeral for a Bird and even Ak’abal’s poems used imagery kind of indirectly (very open to interpretation by the reader), Borges and Berm\u00fades explicitly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,49,48,51,47],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-span312","tag-bermudez","tag-borges","tag-detectivefiction","tag-literarydevices","tag-week5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}