ENGL 100 Lecture 5: ENGL 100 Lecture 5
11 Nov 2015
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Work audience: views the work as something which is constructed in order to achieve certain effects on the audience (effects such as aesthetic pleasure, instruction, or kinds of emotion) (abrams 69) Horace, art of poetry: dulce and utile = delight and instruction. Author work: treats a literary work primarily in relation to its author (abrams 69, wordsworth: poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings (preface to the lyrical ballads) General methodologies in reading and writing: methodology of reading: active and close reading, methodology of writing: writing the literary analysis essay. Methodology of reading: active reading is a process of interpretation and reflection, whereby a reader constructs meaning, establishes significance, and reflects on the limits of his or her understanding. Active readers are often conscious of their moves and can describe them. : active reading is recursive a reading that returns the reader to a previously covered terrain.
