Question - As we continue our discussion of Wieland this week, get a jump on your upcoming essay by beginning your close-reading here in a low-stakes way. Choose a passage and perform a close-reading. Keep in mind that your essay asks you to focus on one small unit of text (4-6 lines preferably), dissect the parts, and offer an interpretation. You will be looking for patterns, oppositions, anomalies, and silences in both meaning and form. For this blog post, you have a limited amount of space. This means you need to narrow your scope and choose what you can reasonably analyze within this space.
Directions:
1) As with the quote you discussed for your last prompt, introduce your passage. This means locate us within the plot to help us understand the quote's context.
2) Quote the text you are analyzing in full. Four lines or more of text should be block quoted. See here for formatting instructions.
3) Include a parenthetical citation at the end of this quote.
4) Type your analysis below the quoted text and take the time to requote words and phrases that are particularly important.
5) Your post should be 250 words or more of analysis (the original quote is not included in this word count). It should also be grammatically sound. This means you need to proof your post.
Reading - Wieland and Memories of Carwin the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown.