Foster, How to Read Literature... (25, 26)

"We expect a certain amount of verisimilitude, of faithfulness to the world we know, in what we watch and what we read" (Foster 228)

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

Walk a mile in my shoes

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

"On the other hand, a too rigid instance on the fictive world corresponding on all points to the world we know can be terribly limiting not only to our enjoyment but to our understanding of literary works." (Foster 228)

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

Don't Look Through Your Own Eyes

"It seems to me that if we want to get the most out of our reading, as far as reasonable, we have to try to take the works as they were intended to be taken." (Foster) p.228

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/11/el_266_foster_2526_eyes_wide_c.html

"Irony works because the audience understands something that eludes one or more of the characters."
~page 240

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/11/now_thats_ironic.html

"Now hear this: irony trumps everything. Consider roads. Journeys, quest, self-knowledge. But what is the road doesn't lead anywhere, or, rather, if the traveler chooses not to take the road."

"Irony trumps everything." (pg: 235)

Easier Said Than Done!

"In other words, Burgess reminds us that for goodness to mean anything, not only must evil exist, but so must the option of choosing evil" (243).

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

I did two different blogs about this reading selection, mainly because one is simply a rant. Enjoy.

Blog 1
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/11/so_blind_so_arrogant_so_bigote.html
"How could someone so talented be so blind, so arrogant, so bigoted?" (Foster 233)

Blog 2
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/11/can_this_person_be_saved.html
"And this leads to the point of the last chance for change story... can this person be saved?" (Foster 230)

I did two different blogs about this reading selection, mainly because one is simply a rant. Enjoy.

Blog 1
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/11/so_blind_so_arrogant_so_bigote.html
"How could someone so talented be so blind, so arrogant, so bigoted?" (Foster 233)

Blog 2
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/11/can_this_person_be_saved.html
"And this leads to the point of the last chance for change story... can this person be saved?" (Foster 230)

Instead try to find a reading perspective that allows for sympathy with the historical moment of the story, that understands the text as having been written against its own social, historical, cultural, and personal background. (Foster 228-9).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/12/foster_ch_25-6.html