ENGL 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Elitism
20 Jan 2016
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Between birth and death, you are in a state of decay. Narrator not necessarily reliable since he is quite empirical poe making the point that not everything can be understood empirically. Punctuation sentence with dashes creates tension and suspense. Specialized focusing on specific aspect or time period in one"s life: political/literary biography. Biography of the author can often shed light on literary works. Stipulates that only the most relevant facts about the authors biography should be chosen to make a sensitive interpretations of the text. Belief that writers are special kinds of people, intellectually and spiritually superior beings. Enables the reader to understand how writer has adapted real-life. Helps reader to gauge how writer"s work may have evolved in response.
