Answer this questions about the author:
1. What is the cultural and
educational background of the author?
2. What are the values and
aesthetic concerns of the culture of the author (literature movement, cultural
movement, society of that time, etc)? And: What important social,
political or economic issues took place in the author's times?
ANSWERS:
1. Nelle Harper Lee was born in
1926 in the town of Monroeville (Alabama, United States). She became a writer in New York, after she went to "University of Alabama", because there she realized that she didn't liked that life and she decided to go to New York, to write. She needed to work in an airline to win some money, and then, her boss gived her as a gift, a year of vacations for her to dedicate her writer's life. That's the educational context and which were the motivations and advantages that she had to become a writer.
2. In that time, the principal movement that was having influence in the US was the fight of the rights of the black population, so that's why there is a lot of that influence showed on the book.
There are two main genres that we are able to identify in the book, the "Bildungsroman" and the "Southern Gothic"
(Font: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/context.html)
Checked! Thanks for sharing! It's great that you include the link where you took the information from! Just change FONT for SOURCE ;)
ResponderEliminarALberto, I was checking the rest of your blog, and it seems there are some entries missing... I could not find your summaries about what we studied on Language and Gender (content + Gender Ads Activity)and what we've been studying on LITERATURE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS (content). It's important that you include your outline of these units in your weekly summaries. I'll check again next week!
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