The reluctance of AQA Specification A to embrace the critical and theo- retical possibilities of the new subject criteria came as no real surprise. Since the new specifications were launched, there have been a number of objections to the critical principles they represent: to the idea that the study of literature should involve anything other than a personal encounter with the text. This strand of complaint bears a number of … Read the rest
Tag: Philosophy
POWER AND SUBMISSION IN LEONID ANDREYEV’S THE MAN WHO FOUND THE TRUTH
How far canand should we be sure of our lives? You have a job, a good wife, and good prospects for the future? Are you sure you won’t lose them tomorrow? The story of the man, whose name we are never given, in Leonid Andreyev’s The Man Who Found The Truth is a story of power and submission. What is the power? Perhaps it is life. Perhaps it is God. … Read the rest