ENGL 3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Margaret Edson, New Criticism, Fourth Wall
20 Feb 2016
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Doctors are male; nurses and literature profs are female. Relies upon a simplistic transgression of stereotyped gender roles: women is strong unfeeling, unemotional. Balance of binary gendered pattern across generations (80, 50, 28) I have been asked how are you feeling today?" while i was throwing up into a plastic washbasin. E. m. you must begin with a text, miss bearing, not with a feeling (13) E. m. do you think the punctuation of the last line of this sonnet is merely an insignificant detail? (14) E. m. nothing but a breath a comma separates life from life everlasting. With the original punctuation restored, death is no longer something to act out on a stage, with exclamation points. Not insuperable barriers, not semicolons, just a comma (14-15) Vivian: in it, i devote one chapter to a thorough examination of each sonnet, discussing every word in extensive detail (19) My students read through a text once once!
