ENG140Y1 Lecture 15: 15 Modern and Normal 1
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Physically and mentally sound, free from disease, meeting certain standards. Takes an existing text, reworks it and orders it. Literary equivalent of warhol"s soup cans, say. Methods: erasure: erasing little parts of it, excerpt and remix: self-explainatory, centos: each line in tact, but made up from a collage of liens, cut up: physically tear up paper and put it in there. Solie interested in how these certain familiar bits of language can sort of be perverted in a variety of ways; either to de-familiarize or to distort. Self-portrait in a series of professional evaluations ; normal. Negative. : create uncertainty or weirdness; setting up the binary of normal and negative. Found: invariants : structural irony, dual meaning; pairs of parallel lines.
