{"id":410,"date":"2023-10-20T16:32:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english480fa23\/?page_id=410"},"modified":"2023-10-20T16:32:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:32:55","slug":"setting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english480fa23\/setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/a>

Setting:<\/b><\/h3>\n

Setting refers to the textual markers that anchor a narrative in a particular place and time.\u00a0 For instance, we might say: \u201cThe settings of Hemingway\u2019s most famous novels map a particular post-WWI geography of Europe; his protagonists typically shuttle back and forth between urban gathering spots for American and British exiles and the rural landscapes where these exiles meet and interact with locals.\u201d\u00a0 Setting thus plays an important role in establishing versimilitude, in helping to delineate characters, and in shaping plot and action.\u00a0 (The Russian critic, M.M. Bakhtin, tried to capture this spatial-temporal dynamic by focusing on the \u201cchronotope\u201d of stories and genres.)\u00a0 Setting can obviously also play a central role in developing the thematic patterns of a story.<\/span><\/p>\n

Modes of setting<\/b><\/p>\n

There are three main <\/span>modes of setting<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Scope: <\/b>Scope refers to the extent or range – – <\/span>broad<\/b> or <\/span>narrow<\/b> – – of a setting and can be analyzed along three axes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n