ED 414 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mikhail Bakhtin, Enid Blyton, Nanny
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Chronotopes: when and where the novel is written. Important to understand what the author did (their life is usually implemented into their writing) Texts have ideals that are outdated but that usually slip out of our recognition: lit theory is about identifying this. Important to recognize because we are teaching this to children and need to understand what the literature is teaching them. Class structures: upper class, upper middle class, middle class, working class. *stoicism is in the upper and upper middle class. 1492 reconquest of granada, spain from 800 years of nasrid rule. Queen isabella presented with first book of spanish vocabulary and grammar: the book was a perfect instrument of the empire, all land was dependent on written tradition. Bishop of avila (person presenting isabella with book) saying language is the perfect instrument of empire. The reaso(cid:374)ed dis(cid:272)ussio(cid:374) of literary (cid:449)orks classification according to its genre,