ENGL 109H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rape Culture, New Criticism
15 Jan 2017
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Rothman uses scholarly evidence to support his claim that culture has 3 divergent meanings which overlap and inform each other: It"s our sense of the word culture that has grown darker, sharper, more skeptical. But, if words are tools for thinking, then this year culture has been used to think about the parts of our society that function poorly. Disagree bc they may be different but a subculture does not define a culture, and there may be negative connotation but it doesn"t make it consistently dark or bad. Through examples of where culture has been trivialized, which we don"t need but want. Also his syntax such as focusing on rape culture and vape culture, etc. Why do we care right now that this is happening. Method of analysis in which a reader evaluates his/her feelings towards a text. Reader might also bring in his or her personal experiences to evaluate/interpret that text.
