ENGLISH 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prose Poetry, Apposition, Cubism
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Mis modification - modified in a way we"re not used to. Etiquette manual: how not to be a proper lady. Recipe book: how not to bake a normativity cake. We have expectations that the thing at the top is a subject, and the stuff below will expand on it. Rarely happens in a straightforward way w/ stein. But we"re so determined to find a rel tw title and the rest that we work our way into reading pertinence. No such thing as putting [words] together without sense . Our initial exp is like this - no matter how far from coffee she tries to be, we find some way or try to construe a description of coffee. She anticipates what we"ll bring to the text; so she disables and sidelines our assumptions. She knows no matter what she does to try keep sense from obtaining, we"ll make some sense.
