Tag Archives: Fourth Wall

LITERATURE: House of Leaves – Opening

Posted on May 16, 2009 by susan

Opening the story in the first person pov, we are hearing from a man about an experience in his past that tells us right in the first sentence: “I still get nightmares.” What follows as an introduction is the setting … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: The 3-Sided Square Table and The 4th Wall

Posted on December 23, 2008 by susan

As a prelude to a posting on Blindness regarding reality and symbolism, this idea popped into my head and since it didn't quite relate, I'm posting it here. The Fourth Wall* in literature and any artistic expression–particularly drama–is the barrier … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Master and Margarita – Flight & The Fourth Wall

Posted on September 8, 2007 by susan

The naked Margarita is happily flying on her broom above the apartment house where she’s wreaked havoc on Latunsky’s apartment and is smashing windows in every other when through a window she spots a small boy in bed, evidently frightened. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Master and Margarita – The Fourth Wall

Posted on August 31, 2007 by susan

In third person omniscient point of view the reader is privy to all going on, anywhere, depending upon the narrator’s movement through the structure of story and of course, reliant upon that narrator’s opinion of events and situations. Bulgakov eases … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Road – Again with the 4th Wall

Posted on April 27, 2007 by susan

(WARNING: Not only spoilers–as all my postings on lit may be, though my readings of past classics are not as threatening to the general populace as a recently published book such as this might be, but then again, who hasn’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Road – Breaking Down the Fourth Wall

Posted on April 25, 2007 by susan

I’ve rooted for a character before, I’ve warned him not to open a door.  Never before, however, have I waited as he passed a light over a discovery and looked him in the eye in that moment of awe of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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