The English Patient

Essay Assignment

English Patient Index

The link to an excellent English Patient index

Bricolage

bricolage plural of bri·co·lage (Noun)Noun:

1. (in art or literature) Construction or creation from a diverse range of available things. source Google

Think of real life texts: the minutes of the Royal Geographic Society
Herotodus' histories and the Unexploded Bomb

Narrative Rupture

A break or burst in the story. Unexpected, jarring, change in the story. Setting, perspective, point of view. 

Think of the multiple perspectives- story from the perspective of Carravagio, Kip, Hana, Almasy...

Almasy telling his story in First Person, Third Person 
Almasy telling the story of Maddox's suicide in England (How could he possibly know what happened)

The multiple names for things (city of Acacias/Zezura) 

Juxtaposition

1. The act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors. For the purposes of implied comparison. source Google.


Think of opposites in the novel. Broken and whole people, the desert versus Italy,  

Assembly

Assembly of different types of art. 

Mongrel influences 

Jazz and musical references in the book...

Nets of associations, listings, or jottings, connected intuitively