1. “Where there is blood there is fascination” (105) Paulo de Medeiros
EN122 Modes of Reading
“Where there is blood there is fascination” (105)
Paulo de Medeiros

2. Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 at 7pm Wine reception at 6pm MS 0
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 at 7pm Wine reception at 6pm MS 0.1, Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL

3. Beginnings: Whose Foe?

4. Title
Author
Authority
Nobel Speech

5. Games Of Origins: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe(1719)
G. Spivak. ‘Theory in the Margin: Reading Defoe’s “Crusoe/Roxanna”. English in Africa 17.2 (1990): 1-23

7. the writings so far mentioned, however, would not necessarily have procured literary immortality for Defoe; this he achieved when in 1719 he turned his talents to an extended work of prose fiction and (drawing partly on the memoirs of voyagers and castaways such as Alexander Selkirk) produced Robinson Crusoe. A German critic has called it a “world-book,” a label justified not only by the enormous number of translations, imitations, and adaptations that have appeared but by the almost mythic power with which Defoe creates a hero and a situation with which every reader can in some sense identify.

9. At the age of 59 Defoe embarked on what was virtually a new career, producing in Robinson Crusoe the first of a remarkable series of novels and other fictional writings that resulted in his being called the father of the English novel.
Defoe’s last years were clouded by legal controversies over allegedly unpaid bonds dating back a generation, and it is thought that he died in hiding from his creditors. His character Moll Flanders, born in Newgate Prison, speaks of poverty as “a frightful spectre,” and it is a theme of many of his books.
Reginald P.C. Mutter. Encyclopaedia Brittanica

10. Games
Of Names and other ‘cuts’: Cannibals and Foes

11. Author

12. Authority
Whose Story?

13. The Nobel Speech

14. Politics: What’s Left? Politics of the text Literary History
Apartheid and Racism
Deconstructing Eurocentric Assumptions

15. Poyner, Jane, ed. (2006). "J. M. Coetzee in conversation with Jane Poyner". J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. p. 22.

16. Postcolonial Appropriation and subversion of canon of literary history
Writing as a failure

17. Apartheid/Racism

18. Source: Dailymail. co. uk John Stevens
Source: Dailymail.co.uk John Stevens. ‘Europe slams migrant door’ 14 September