How to read literature It's all political outline
It’s all political
. A Christmas Carol
. A Christmas Carol’s political views
1) Story had a different view beyond the theme
2) Scrooge mentioned as “representative” (Saying that characters can represent populations)
3) Story was meant to change us and through us to change society
. Symbol for protesting the government
. Politics in literary texts
. Foster’s primary intent is to influence the body politic
1) Overtly political writing can be one-dimensional, simplistic, reductionist, preachy, or dull
2) Political writing is programmatic (not actually a story)
3) Writing a classic is difficult
. Writing that engages the realities of its world
1) Many writings think about social and political human problems
2) Many of Dickens’s work has these aspects (his later work)
. Most writing political to a certain level (Using Poe as an example)
. Stories most people wouldn’t think would be political is political
1) “The Masque of Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe
2) “The Fall of the House Usher,” also had political aspects
3) Both dealt with a stratum of society most readers get to read about which is nobility
. “The fall of the House Usher”
1) Foster mentions from the book, “Living in a decaying mansion surrounded by a forbidding landscape; they themselves are decaying
2) Foster is saying that even landscape can mean politics
. Literary writers and their work
. Writers tend to be men and women interested in the world around them
1) In society, part of it contains the political part of the time (power structures, relations among classes, and issues of justices and rights.
. Knowledge of social and political milieu from a writer gives a better understanding
1) Virginia Woolf wrote about women of her time only being permitted a certain range of activities
2) Many people did not see any political aspects for the most part of Woolf’s stories
3) Woolf explains each political aspect part of her stories very
. A Christmas Carol
. A Christmas Carol’s political views
1) Story had a different view beyond the theme
2) Scrooge mentioned as “representative” (Saying that characters can represent populations)
3) Story was meant to change us and through us to change society
. Symbol for protesting the government
. Politics in literary texts
. Foster’s primary intent is to influence the body politic
1) Overtly political writing can be one-dimensional, simplistic, reductionist, preachy, or dull
2) Political writing is programmatic (not actually a story)
3) Writing a classic is difficult
. Writing that engages the realities of its world
1) Many writings think about social and political human problems
2) Many of Dickens’s work has these aspects (his later work)
. Most writing political to a certain level (Using Poe as an example)
. Stories most people wouldn’t think would be political is political
1) “The Masque of Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe
2) “The Fall of the House Usher,” also had political aspects
3) Both dealt with a stratum of society most readers get to read about which is nobility
. “The fall of the House Usher”
1) Foster mentions from the book, “Living in a decaying mansion surrounded by a forbidding landscape; they themselves are decaying
2) Foster is saying that even landscape can mean politics
. Literary writers and their work
. Writers tend to be men and women interested in the world around them
1) In society, part of it contains the political part of the time (power structures, relations among classes, and issues of justices and rights.
. Knowledge of social and political milieu from a writer gives a better understanding
1) Virginia Woolf wrote about women of her time only being permitted a certain range of activities
2) Many people did not see any political aspects for the most part of Woolf’s stories
3) Woolf explains each political aspect part of her stories very