Cold Comfort Farm Form and Style
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- Created on: 05-05-13 19:49
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- Form and style
- References to Jane Austen's Emma
- Flora based on Emma
- Desire to organise other people
- Finishes by organising herself into marriage
- Witty, ironic tone of novel is Austenque
- Flora based on Emma
- Starred purple passages
- Gibbons mockingly adopts system of star rating for particularly vivid passages
- Pathetic fallacy
- Highly sensual imagery
- Hyperbole
- Expressive metaphor
- Heavy use of adjectives
- Often comic in effect
- Tend to doom laden, gloomy in tone
- Characters ' bond with the natural rhythms of the earth is stressed and exploited for comic effect
- Satire
- Dedication to the fictitious Pookworthy suggest novel's satirical intent
- Gibbons attack novels which are "records of intense spiritual struggles staged in the wild setting of mere, bog and fen"
- Comedy of manners
- Established genre-comic social observation
- Flora's observation about civlised society
- Mixed with Romantic novel genre as they all find love in the end
- Flora and Charles
- Elfine and ****
- Urk and Meriam
- Mr. Mybug and Rennet
- Established genre-comic social observation
- 3rd person narrative
- Narrative remains focus on Flora
- Over the shoulder narration
- Untitled
- Dialect
- Characters speak in generic
- Much dialect lexis- clettering, mollocking etc.
- Dialect used for comic purposes to stereotype rural characters
- Flora uses it when speaking persuasively to Reuben- convergence
- Assumption that Standard English is superior, and that those who use it are superior
- Parody
- Parody of writers like DH Lawrence who worship nature, elevate instinctive sexual behaviour over rational behaviour
- Seth and Reuben are parodies of rural stereotypes
- Judith and Seth are parody of the kind of intense Oepdial relationship written about in novels like Sons & Lovers
- The language of Amos' sermon is a parody of the hell fire and damnation style of some contemporary preeachers
- References to Jane Austen's Emma
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