Pathetic Fallacy in Fiction | Episode 41

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Each week on The Matterhorn podcast, I discuss a way to layer fictions and discover the nuances of truth, using my novel as a catalyst but looking at other works of fiction as well as theory and interdisciplinary ideas. Each week, I also spend a little time on places & spaces, as part of a continued discourse on these ideas.

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Table of Contents

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Keywords:

• Definition

• Literary devices as layers

• Focus on nature/weather

• Humans and the elements

• Literary Examples

• Place & Space focus - reclaimed land

Texts:

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• BBC Bitesize on Pathetic Fallacy

• Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• Bram Stoker’s Dracula

• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

• The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller

• Autumn Ali Smith

• George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo

• Brittanica definition

• Wordsworth : “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

• Pastoralism as Culture and Counter-Culture in English Fiction, 1800-1928: From a View to a Death

• Ruskin on the pathetic fallacy

• Beyond Ecology: Self, Place & the Pathetic Fallacy

• Poetic Truth and Pathetic Fallacy

• Weather affects mood – psychology today

• HK changing coastline

• Yoga – 5 elements of nature

• A metaphor is a terrible thing to waste

• Norwegian Town where the Sun Doesn’t Rise

• Further literary examples

• Come rain or come shine: individual differences in how weather affects mood

• Kiu-Wai Chu

• Forgotten History of Hong Kong’s Tigers

• Rachel Heng’s THE GREAT RECLAMATION

• The Importance of Land Reclamation in Hong Kong and Its Impacts

• How land reclamation can help the environment

• My Life with the Wave Octavio Paz

• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Mishima

• Anthony Hecht Obbligati

• On Land reclamation

• SLAKE
  and
  Tales from the Defrag