ENG 112- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 112
• Professor: Liz Podnieks

Document Summary

The garland and the other readings were for an implied audience and since the audience was 90% of the population, they became in itself popular culture. Cyclical nature of time: universality: the common repetitious themes and patterns of the stories and how the stories are supposed to be told. There"s a hierarchy between: consumer of culture, not producers, micro, macro-making new pieces. Folk culture peasant culture : oral culture in print. The implied reader = the authors target reader, the cost of the writings leaned closer to the poor. Rural life living in small communities, earned just enough to pass by 90% of people were common, living off of agricultural labour. Did not leave the community, never met anyone of different culture/country. Death was a constant way of life. Did not have any power over their lives. Communal culture with little or no privacy. Speaks to constant death, church would promote these images.