GS - 4 - Verbal (Revised) passage 2 Q. 10

[aln012]

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Hi. I believe this is the relevant part of the passage that matters:

"Beginning his career with strictly academic subjects, Fish's writings came to include concerns outside the classroom. His first book, John Skelton's Poetry, which grew out of his doctoral thesis, takes a radical perspective in interpreting Skelton's work. Fish contends that Skelton was basically a private poet and that his implicitly Christian verse serves as a record of the poet's reiligious development; at the center of Fish's argument is the "psychological (spiritual) history" of what he refers to as the protagonist."

10. According to the passage, Fish's work:
I. moved from literary to legal and political concerns.
II. began with religious literary texts.
III. was heavily-oriented towards studying the reader.

Elsewhere in the passage, I and III was shown to be true. But the answer is that all I, II, and III were true. I don't get how you can extract that II was true based just on that paragraph. Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Ismet]

Hi. I believe this is the relevant part of the passage that matters:

"Beginning his career with strictly academic subjects, Fish's writings came to include concerns outside the classroom. His first book, John Skelton's Poetry, which grew out of his doctoral thesis, takes a radical perspective in interpreting Skelton's work. Fish contends that Skelton was basically a private poet and that his implicitly Christian verse serves as a record of the poet's reiligious development; at the center of Fish's argument is the "psychological (spiritual) history" of what he refers to as the protagonist."

It is a bit tough to pull II out from that passage, but the key phrase here is "his first book." Fish's works began with analyzing Skelton's poetry, which was religious in nature. Thus, Fish's work began with religious literary texts.

 

[aln012]

Yea, that's the only thing that makes sense. The part that talks about him beginning his career strictly focusing on academic subjects, THEN branching out to subjects outside the classroom really threw me off.

Thanks!