Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 12 AIL 1136 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Cost of Confusing Them
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The idea
Reading Equiano as satire would treat a man's account of his own suffering as a device. Reading Swift as sincere would treat a satirist as a monster. Both errors come from the same failure, and this is the clearest reason unit five's work on voice was placed before the craft units.
In practice
One failure, two bad readings.
Where people slip
Voice is settled before anything else.
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