P1:概述说一个作家成长过程中的特征、习惯。
- 写传记---> 研究一个作家的青年时期。
- 一个作家早期的努力(包括:客服各种焦虑、掌握语言的精髓、培养不同的声音视角)被视作微不足道-----> 阻碍了一些机会:了解作家最终的成就和力量的起源。
- 有效的inquiry: initiated at points other than formative years.
- NEVETHELSS,我们对于作者的风格和美学的理解可以得到加强<----尝试识别有创造力的作品的文学起源。
- 作者引出TD的例子,说这种方式在考虑TD作为非洲裔美国人的重要性上是有关联的。
182 早期文学作品
P1 除非是写biography,否则对于作者的研究很少会注意她们的juvenilia(作家或艺术家少年时期的作品)这一惯例阻碍了对于作者ultimate achievement and power的探查(inquiry)。我们对于作者风格和审美的理解是由尝试identify富有创造性作品的文学起源而增强的。就像 TD对于AA writer的重要性一样
P2 DT的subtle political and historically analytic perspectives on AA cultures manifest in D journalist工作中,尤其是MTMVC 1951-1952 V53 No。1-6 provide early evidence of our begining understanding about his orientation toward reality, aesthetic preferences and his complex and historically grounded modes of thought and expression. evidences that are crucial for a full assessment of D later work.
The insights into the writer’s style and aesthetic might be strengthened by trying to identify the literary origins, just as Tom’s Dent’s works provides a deep insight into what shapes his work.