How Textual Form Shapes Meaning

What this note covers

1. What Is Textual Form and Why Does It Matter?
2. How Each Major Form Shapes Representation
3. Poetry: Compression and the Weight of the Unsaid
4. Prose Fiction and Non-Fiction: Immersion and Authority
5. Drama and Multimodal Texts: Externalisation and Simultaneity
6. Writing About Form in Section I and Section II Responses
7. Form, Context, and the Ethics of Representation

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