Unlike the first-person narrative mode, which only gives access to the thoughts and feelings of one of the characters, an omniscient narrator has the advantage of being in a position to know everything about all the characters in a story. The reader is, therefore, free to draw his or her own conclusions as to what this reveals about the personality of Mr Duffy, without guidance from the narrator. Discuss the ideas in Paul Val ry's essay 'Remarks on Poetry' in the course materials by considering in detail a passage from The Waste Land and a paragraph from Mrs Dalloway . Mrs Dalloway displays many of those aspects of language which Paul Val ry identifies as essentially poetic. Every power poured its treasures on his head, and his hand lay there on the back of the sofa, as he had seen his hand lie when he was bathing, floating, on the top of the waves, while far away on shore he heard dogs barking and barking far away.
Attention is drawn to the language itself, to the relationship between words and phrases.
Similarly, words are grouped and repeated so as to reinforce a sense of underlying patterning. According to Pierre Macherey, the ideology of a literary work resides in its incompleteness, in its significant gaps and silences. With reference to two texts from different genres, suggest how Macherey's theory of ideology might yield new insights and meanings in literary criticism. No text is 'complete' in itself according to Macherey. The words on the page may appear to produce a clear-cut, easily discemable meaning, however if we accept this at face value we are not appreciating the work as a whole, for as well as the explicit meaning of a work, the reader should also be aware of the gaps, silences and contradictions inherent in a text.