Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Great Regulars: But the agenda of this speaker is not

to present reality but to set up a straw man against which she can protest. She attempts to indict this sauntering cowboy for wrongs she imagines, as she implies the cowboy's sauntering shows his hubris which she finds as silly as the "almost-/silly West." Again, the reader will remember that the stereotype being flaunted here is nothing more than a showbiz prop, and therefore cannot be taken at face value.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Margaret Atwood's Backdrop addresses cowboy

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