CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Linguistic Turn, Postcolonial Literature, Affect Theory
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Literary studies in: ancient greece, authors may have written also comedies, but only the tragedy texts survived. English language, started to realize the importance of the authors lifes and wrote about it . Poetry should also reach the simple people: victorianism (1837-1901) matthew arnold: public discussion of literary works, beginning of english studies as university degeres. Sir leslie stephen still held on the thought of the huge importance of the biographies of the authors, he was also the author of the dictionary of national biography, which collected texts about many. Leslie stephens is also the father of virgina woolf, who is a well- known poetrist. The linguistic turn was a shift towards a understanding of the importance of language. Ferdinand de saussure lived in switzerland and he said that when language is so important we should start to study it more closely.
