http://guitarsophist.com/2010/02/07/literary-theory-midterm/ Music-Rhetoric-Teaching Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:41:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://guitarsophist.com/2010/02/07/literary-theory-midterm/#comment-184 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:08:40 +0000 http://guitarsophist.com/?p=276#comment-184 This is interesting–I was just proofing a paper by a student for whom English is a second language, and this came up: She had interpreted the summation of the opposition as the position of the author, and was a little shocked when I pointed out that the author was actually arguing the counterpoint. I think some of the ways that the counterpoint is introduced or segued away from can be too subtle for a non-native reader. Of course, not reading the whole paper contributes as well.

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