Belsey, ''Literature, History, Politics''

I'm going to use this essay for my presentation

"The intertextual relations of the text are never purely literary. Fiction draws not only on other fiction but on the knowledge of its period, discourses in circulation which are themselves sites of power and the contest for power" (433).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/04/the_determining_factors_behind.html

How do we teach literature if their isn't history and politics?

Is Everything Political?
“But documents do not merely transcribe experience: to the extent that they inevitably come from a context where power is at stake, they are worth analysis not as access to something beyond them, not as evidence of how it felt, but as themselves locations of power and resistance to power” (Belsey 431).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/04/is_everything_political.html

"Literature is not a knowledge. Literary criticism is a knowledge." (Belsey 432).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/04/literature-is-o.html

The importance of understanding history in literature and fiction!

Culture and power

The Ugh of Exam Questions

From Catherine Belsey’s “Literature, History, Politics” in Donald Keesey’s Contexts for Criticism:

“The intertextual relations of the text are never purely literary. Fiction draws not only on other fiction but on the know ledges of its period, discourses in circulation which are themselves sites of power and the contest for power “(433).

Intertextuality Again
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/04/intertextuality-again.html

"...this world is inevitably a place of sorrow and... the only heroism is a solitary resignation of the spirit" (Belsey 428).