"term for a pattern of objects, actions, events or a situation that can serve effectively to awaken in the reader an emotional response without being a direct statement of that subjective emotion."In other words, a certian action takes place in the reading, creating a particular emotion in the reader which is justified by the plot and the characters response. Questions?
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Definition of the Day
For those who want to expand their vocabulary, who maybe lost their copy of the "Handbook to Literature" or just don't quite understand what FR is talking about, here is a definition for the phrase Objective Correlative. The word was used as early as 1850 to describe the process by which the external world produces pleasurable emotion but of course T. S. Eliot had to come along and change the meaning. The handbook for literature defines it as
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american transplants tend to aspire for pomp; theirs is a secret wish to compensate for that pedestrian american upbringing. but i'm guilty: 'mysteries abysmal' is all james. but 'objective correlative'? sounds like rhetoric at an amway meeting.
why do they have to be luminous books? couldnt they be tenebrous books, or crepuscular books, or just the darkened books?
american transplants tend to aspire for pomp; theirs is a secret wish to compensate for that pedestrian american upbringing. but i'm guilty: 'mysteries abysmal' is all james. but 'objective correlative'? sounds like rhetoric at an amway meeting.n amway meeting.
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