There is no “originality” as such in literature, only new ways of combining and redacting already existing texts.’Discuss with reference to any text from this module.
The long-established genres and forms –tragedy, comedy, epic, pastoral, eclogue, lyric, ode, etc. –are ways of seeing the world as ordered, conventional, and static in fundamental ways. When you adopt their rules, you assume a certain posture and a set of hypotheses about the way things are and should be. But if you want to […]