Littérature Anglaise : The Author's Voice, The Author Playing With Language

The last sequence was called "The author's voice, the author playing with language"

Voice has two meanings as it concerns creative writers:

it can be defined as the author's style, the quality that makes his writing unique, and which conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character. Voice can also be the characteristic speech and thought patterns of a first-person narrator; a persona. Because voice has so much to do with the reader's experience of a work of literature, it is one of the most important elements of a piece of writing.

Oxford dictionnary defines Author as a writer of a book, an article, or a document; but more specifically as someone who writes books as a profession.

Language can be defined as a characteristic style of speech or writing, a system for the expression of thoughts, feelings, etc.

The author plays with language to write about diction, word choice; and it's like he shows himself and his thougts through his words. He writes about what he wants the reader to feel as he is reading the text, and what he's trying to tell us.

Throughout this sequence, we have discussed the art of the biography as an example of the theme under study. We studied an autobiography of Franck McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" and an extract form chapter one of Bram Stocker's Dracula. My chosen document is a Serguei's drawing called "L'écriture de soi".

My presentation will fall into 2 parts. In the first part, I will talk about the author and his writing.

In the second part I will go over the credibility of the biography.

The author's style of writting makes him come to light and defines the story we are reading, as shown in line 5 in Franck McCourt's Angela's Ashes. His sister is dead and gone, and this sentence give the tone for the entire story. Besides, the humor bits he is using throughout the whole book make the narrator very narcissic, and make somehow his story even sadder. However. His description of Limerick by using the five's senses makes the scene more realistic.

In line 12 in Bram Stocker's Dracula, it says that Jonathan Harker made some search about Transylvania, this is an example of metatextuality: Bram Stocker admits through Jonathan that he researched himself about his book and made everything up.

Serguei's work shows by the head-ball the difficulty of writting an autobiography: you have to remember, then to re-organize, and then to tell in a clearly way. Serguei also shows the weiting of the life by this kniting: first, the lived past, the writer unwinds, then the present that he is kniting and the future, the moment the reader is reading the book.

An autobiography is never the entire truth, as illustrated in line 8 of Angela's Ashes: " It was, of course, a miserable childhood, the happy childhood is hardly worth your while". He explains us that if he had written about his real childhood, the book wouldn't have been sold. Indeed, miserable stories are more appreciated by people. Moreover, the use of humourous bits in his biography make him less reliable to the reader.

It turns out that in Serguei's drawing, the character

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