ENGL 2P11 Lecture : Wednesday February 12th 2014 2p11.docx
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Self conscious awareness of a potential adult audience (wall 22) narratee sometimes assumed to be a child sometimes an adult narrator alternates (to whatever extent) between material meant for the child and for the adult, but always with concern about how the adult will react child narrate thus can become an object of fun/scorn/sentiment for the narrator/adult narrate sometimes associated with talking down assumes a hierarchy different experience level are valued differently. A stance in which a narrator addresses child and adult narrates genuinely in the same voice (wall 34) narrate assumed to be both a child and an adult, without privileging one over the other narrator speaks to the child on the child"s level of experience but speaks as well to the complexity of adult experience/knowledge without privileging one over the other assumption of equality of interests if not of experience for both child and adult narrates.
