Foster, How to Read Literature... (Interlude, 11, 12)

"Much of what we think about literature, we feel first." (Foster 106)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/09/harry_potter_is_better_than_th.html

"Violence is everywhere in literature" (Foster 89).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/09/violence_is_a_good_thing.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/HeatherMourick/2009/09/answers_answers_whos_got_the_a.html

Who knows what the significance of a dolphin shaped cloud is?

"We want it to mean something, don't we? More than that, we want it to mean some thing, one thing for all of us and for all time. That would be easy, convenient, manageable for us."
~page 99

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/09/what_does_it_mean.html

"Violence in literature, though, while it is literal, is usually also something else. That same punch in the nose may be a metaphor." (pg. 88)

" The smallness and fragility of our lives is met with the cold indifference not only of the distant stars and planets, which we can rightly think of as virtually eternal in contrast to ourselves, but of the more immediate "outer" world of the farm itself.." (pg 89).

"Violence in literature, though, while it is literal, is usually something else." (Foster) p.88

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/09/el_266_foster-ch_11_violence_a.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/09/in_the_eye_of_the_beholder.html

"The authority I bring to these readings is that of my own background and experience.... One of the pleasures of literary scholarship lies in encountering different and even conflicting interpretation" (Foster 105)

"Here's the problem with symbols: people expect them to mean something" (97).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/09/survey_says.html

Confusion Within Books!

"Reading literature is a highly intellectual activity, but it also involves affect and instinct to a large degree. Much of what we think about literature, we feel first." (p. 106)

"Violence is one of the most personal and even intimate acts between human beings" (pp.88)

"Violence is one of the most personal and even intimate acts between human beings,but it can also be cultural and societal in its implications." (Foster 88)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/09/saturday_nights_alright_for_fi.html