Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
New Books in Literary Studies
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How to Use Your Experience to Grant Authority
I think to balance out what is authority in the service of actually not continuing conversation versus this deepens. If I wanted to, if I felt prompted to talk about a certain experience can I locate it in the text that we all share at the moment or have shared in the past? That would be the first thing that I would say to myself. It's there in Shakespeare, you know, he in a way invented it. You find it there but another thing that you mentioned that comes to mind is one can put oneself into the text by reading it aloud and give it one's own voice. Even if it's something that is scientific or objective or abstract, you can still find a way
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