Nhận biết (M1)

“The Children” by Charles M. Dickinson, published in the Maysville (KY) Weekly Bulletin in 1864, exemplifies the phenomenon of “fugitive verse”: poems reprinted in newspapers and other nineteenth-century US periodicals without authorial oversight or, even, in many cases, knowledge. Though poems that became fugitive verse were typical of newspaper poetry of their era in their reliance on such elements as repetitive structure and everyday settings, the phenomenon of fugitive verse represents a significant departure from the dominant mode of literary authorship in which a work is controlled by a single and publicly identified author. This practice, however, was accepted as routine, even by the poets affected; that it has come to seem anomalous is indicative of the fact that __________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

• A.

  the concept of authorship and the privileges associated with the author’s role are mediated by the contexts within which works are written and published.

• B.

  the authors of nineteenth-century newspaper poetry placed less value on artistic control than did their contemporaries who wrote other types of literature.

• C.

  the notion that authors should have control over the reprinting of their works was a contested issue in nineteenth-century literary culture.

• D.

  the literary characteristics of works disseminated through commercial venues are influenced by the circumstances of publication as well as by authorial choices.