Foster (19.20)

"The idea [of the festivals] was to purge all the built-up bad feeling of winter from the populace... so that no negativity would attach to the growing season and thereby endanger the harvest" (Foster 182-183).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EthanShepley/2008/02/spring_a_time_for_birds_bees_a.html

"In a sense, every story or poem is a vacation, and every writer has to ask, everytime, where is this one taking place ?" (Foster 19, 20 Pg. 163-164)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndreaNestler/2008/02/every_story_poem_a_vacation_fo.html

"In any case, once you pay attention to the name game, you pretty much know things will end badly, since dasies can't flourish in the winter, and things do" (Foster 178)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/02/pushing_up_daisies.html

"Why didn't Napoleon conquer Russia? Geography. He ran into two forces he couldn't overcome: a ferocious Russian winter and a people whose toughness and tenacity in defending their homeland matched the merciless elements." (Foster, pg. 165)

“Geography can also, and frequently does, play quote a specific plot role in a literary work” (169).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/02/murder_mystery.html

“Geography can also, and frequently does, play quote a specific plot role in a literary work” (169).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/02/geographic_importance_1.html

“What Lawrence does, really, is employ geography as a metaphor for the psyche—when his characters go south, they are really digging deep into their subconscious, delving into that region of darkest fears and desires” (Foster 170).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/02/going_south_the_double_whammy.html

"What he [Shakespeare] does, brilliantly, is to invest it [metaphor comparing fall to nearing 'old age'] with a specificity and a continuity that force us to really see not only the thing he describes-the end of autumn and the coming of winter-but the thing he's really talking about, namely the speaker's standing on the edge of old age" (Foster 176).
To view my comments on the Foster reading click this link
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/02/showing_why_seasons_matter.html

"Every story or poem is a vacation, and every writer has to ask, every time, Where is this one taking place?" (Foster 163).

Sometimes I like more than one quote.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2008/02/el150_sometimes_i_cannot_choos.html

“Okay, so here’s the general rule: whether it’s Italy or Greece or Africa or Malaysia or Vietnam, when writers send characters south, it’s so they can run amok” (Foster 171).

View more of my blog at:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeanineONeal/2008/02/their_eyes_were_on_the_south.html

"Who can say how much of us comes from our physical surroundings? Writers can, at least in their own works, for their own purposes" (Foster 166).

"The seasons are the same in literature, and yet always different" (Foster 181).

“she’s all spring and sunshine; he’s all frosty stiffness. Names, you ask. Daisy miller and Frederic Winterbourne. Really, it’s just too perfect… you wonder why we don’t feel our intelligence has been insulted.

"Literary geography is typically about humans inhabiting spaces, and at the same time the spaces that inhabit humans. Who can say how much of us comes from our physical surroundings? ... Geography is setting, but it's also (or can be) psychology, attitude, finance, industry - anything that place can forge in the people who live there" (Foster, 165-166).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/02/small_town_ideas.html

"For about as long as anyone's been writing, anything, the seasons have stood for the same set of meanings. Maybe it's hardwired into us that spring has to do with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness but also harvest, winter with old age and resentment and death. This pattern is so deeply ingrained in our cultural experience that we don't even have to stop and think about it. Think about it we should, though, since once we know the pattern is in play, we can start looking at variation and nuance" (Foster 178).

Hills and valleys have a logic of their own. Why did Jack and Jill go up the hill? Sure, sure, a pail of water, probably orders from a parent. But wasn't the real reason so Jack could break his crown and Jill come tumbling after? (Foster 173).

"Why didn't Napoleon conquer Russia? Geography. He ran into two forces he couldn't overcome: a ferocious Russian winter and a people whose toughness and tenacity in defending their homeland matched the merciless elements." (Foster, pg. 165)

Guess the first time didn't take hmm?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/02/them_cossacks_sure_ran_them_fr.html

"The seasons are always the same in literature and yet always different" (Foster 181).

You can find the rest of my agenda item here:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/02/stopping_by_this_entry_on_a_ra.html

He treats us to "a singularly dreary tract of country," to "a few rank sedges" and "white trunks of decayed trees," to "the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn," so that we're ready for the "bleak walls" of the house with its "vacant eye-like windows" and its "barely perceptible fissure" zigzagging its way down the wall right down to "the sullen waters of tarn." Never perhaps have landscape and architecture and weather merged as neatly with mood and tone to set a story in motion (Foster 166)."

You can find the rest here:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/02/it_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night.html

"In a sense, every story or poem is a vacation, and every writer has to ask, everytime, where is this one taking place ?"(Foster 163).

Come vacation with Harry Potter
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/02/vacation_with_harry_potter.html

"Let's go on vacation. you say okay and then ask your frist question, which is....who's paying? which month? can we get time off? No. none of these.
Where?" (Foster 163)

to comment on julianna's quote. i like it because it is true that the harry potter books take you on a vacation to a completely and totally different place that makes you never want to come back to reality. every book, poem, any pierce of literature for that matter does the same thing to interest the reader.

"When writers send characters south, it's so they can run amok" (Foster 171).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/02/geography_really_does_matter_1.html

"What he does, brilliantly, is to invest it with a specificity and a continuity that force us to really see not only the thing he describes - the end of autumn and the coming of winter - but the thing he's really talking about, namely the speaker's standing on the edge of old age." (Foster 176)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/02/now_is_the_winter_of_our_disco.html