ENGL204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Objective Correlative, Oxbridge, Spiritual Crisis
30 Oct 2018
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Literature emerges as a kind of social safety net because . Emphasizes emotion and experience (think: romanticism, realism) Faith in transcendence (can work up and be better than you are) Ultimately: literature is supposed to change your quality of life. Literature is considered a guide and index to a modern mortality. English as professional language for a new class of workers: teachers. 1877: suitable for women and the second- and third-rate men who become school masters . Vernacular entrance exam for foreign office and state employees. Literature as anchor of moral life is called into question. Au imagine world as living organic sensibility vs industrial mass culture. Focus on genius, place, personality (regional literature) Eliot (cid:3247)objective correlative(cid:3248) au need to depersonalize literature because the archaic traditions and myths are greater than any single au or txt. Used organized words to fight, rather than physical aggression.
