ENGL 250- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Reanalyze essays written by women (historical texts) to get rid of the male gaze that impacted the way the writing was interpreted at the time. We"ve been taught how to see ourselves specifically through women"s voice : nasty women vs. special women, essentialism women have things to saw that are different from men simply from just being a woman. Rich"s writing process: she vs i individual to a larger scale, growing as a person, taking on male aspect. Inconsistent in sentence structure more deliberate: she has more confidence in her writing. Planetarium adrienne rich: speaker could be anyone, a lady is thinking, from form to lack of form, aunt jen to planetarium, no punctuation, no rhyme scheme or couplets. Inconsistent in sentence structure: her message became harder to interpret, her diction was stronger and more deliberate, she has more confidence in her writing.
