for 11/16: read Barthes excerpts; and read Conrad's "The Secret Sharer." Conrad wrote: "by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel... before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand — and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth." In your post, analyze the language especially, and also look for Conrad's use of parallelisms. How does Conrad build his style on the mix of different types of words (see the post, below, on language classifications)? Pick 2 or 3 passages.
for 11/18: Read our last Lanham, chapter 9. No post is due for this day. In class we will review the tools of close reading, appplying them to a selection of excerpts.
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