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The author speaks and writes back against his or her metaphorical death. Aristotle’s Poetics is helpful for this context when it discusses the effect that the poet’s plot and character have on the audience. Literary and non-literary texts involve a dramatic engagement between author and audience.

Comparisons among cultures open up new perspectives. This paper is a comparative discussion of Western Europeans and how they came to terms with the otherness of Natives in the New World and how that called into question their own authority as authors and indeed their worldview. This representation ...