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Foreshadowing
- March 25, 2023
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No CommentsA feature we use a great deal in ‘Casanova in Paris’ is foreshadowing, a way of pointing to future events in a narrative and so shape audience expectations. These expectations may be very concrete, such as a character stating that something is going to happen, or very nuanced and related to mood. Foreshadowing can be -
Introducing Marquise d’Urfé
- February 4, 2023
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A device that we’ve employed several times in ‘Casanova in Paris’ is to have the audience re-evaluate their assessment of a character on the basis of new information. In the case of Marquise d’Urfé, she had previously been described by Madame de Pompadour as an old woman, besotted with Casanova upon whom she had -
Transitions
- December 31, 2022
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Transitions can be viewed as a particular aspect of cohesion and coherence (see blog here) where the narrative switches to a different time and place. The reader, hopefully, will have been immersed in the narrative journey and you won’t want to jolt them out of that pleasurable state by constructing unnecessary bumps in the
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