[ENGL 3960] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (12 pages long)

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Whitman was a typesetter and highly involved in the publishing of newspapers and books. Medium for the transference of content: material matters. Reading as an action what happens during time and space. Cultural and social history reading to someone is a social interaction. Wide array for historical analysis because of this. Very personal self representation and representation of the reader. Reaches into the future and addresses other generation. Connection between self and connection of everything around him. Time and space interconnected, an intimate network. Whitman uses every possible repeated trope, phrases, words. Intimately repeated experience of crossing the ferry: ex. Tide, the ebb and flow, rise and fall of the sun. As readers- went to place author describes: poem describing historical effect encoded in language, text has a certain historical function, continuity of past and present partakes in past. It avails not : the present moment and the past he is talking about creates a time, makes the future.

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