Foster, How to Read Literature... (23, 24)

"Real illnesses comes with baggage, which can be useful or at least overcome in the novel." (Foster 225)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/10/i_should_tell_you_ive_got_bagg.html

"Naturally, what gets encoded in a literary disease is largely up to the writer and the reader." (Foster 221)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/10/cant_i_just_be_sick.html

"But as we've seen time and time again, what we feel in real life and what we feel in our reading lives can be quite different." (Foster)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/10/el_266_foster_chapter_23_24-_u.html

Foster is still opening up dooors.

"In literature there is no better, no more lyrical, no more perfectly metaphorical illness than heart disease." (pg: 208)

"Aside from being the pump that keeps us alive, the heart is also, and has been since ancient times, the symbolic repository of emotion."
~page 208

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/10/its_all_about_the_heart.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/HeatherMourick/2009/10/heartache_and_pollution.html

Foster lost me on this one, but that's okay!

" The afflicted character can have any number of problems for which heart disease provides a suitable emblem.... Socially it may stand for these matters on a larger scale, or for something seriously amiss at the heart of things" (Foster 209)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/10/ouch_my_heart.html

"Aside from being the pump that keeps us alive, the heart is also, and has been since ancient times, the symbolic repository of emotion" (208).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/11/i_heart_you.html

"There is "no hope" for him this time, we're told. Already your reader's radar should be on full alert. A priest with no hope? Not hard to recognize in such a statement a host of possibilities are realized throughout the story." (p. 213)

Edgar Allan Poe, who in real life saw plenty of tuberculosis, gives us a mystery disease in "Masque of the Red Death" (Foster 224).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/12/foster_ch_23-4.html