Disclosure And Secrecy

Question 1

Poor Things, Alasdair Gray, 1992

Answer 1

“It would cast a shadow upon her life to know she is a surgical fabrication. Only you and I know the truth, and I doubt if you believe it”

Question 2

Death of the Author, Barthes, 1968

Answer 2

“The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture”

Question 3

In the Cage, Henry James, 1898

Answer 3

Identity of protagonist never revealed: only referred to as ‘she’, ‘her’ or ‘the girl’

Question 4

Poor Things 2

Answer 4

“She stared hard at Baxter, her face growing thinner, the pupils of her eyes expanding to completely blacken the irises. “Where is my child, Baxter?””

Question 5

In the Cage 2

Answer 5

“‘Then you’re sure? You know?’ She felt she scarce knew what - as if she might soon be pounced upon for some lurid connection with a scandal”

Question 6

Peter Brooks, Enigmas of Identity, 2011

Answer 6

“The rise of the novel… can be read as both a fascination with private life… and a kind of invasion of that very privacy it values. “