EN 3191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Linda Hutcheon, Secondary Source, Edward Lear
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Lecture 8: carroll and lear: state the larger context of your argument. I found throughout this course there is this particular issue. Trying to explain what makes your argument important. General context/theoretical context: in the second paragraph, you really want to be as focused as possible. You won"t have the time or space to examine the entire work. You cannot discuss everything about a particular work in 6 pages. Determine for yourself what is it that you want to choose to discuss. Select which characters you are going to discuss, which episodes you are going to discuss and what kinds of episodes you are going to discuss: introducing your secondary source. Sometimes it is also a way to create conversation between genre and reflect how we think about genre. Parody can go beyond simply mocking a particular genre and showing that its lacking or flawed.
