Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Literary Nature
Nature, taken broadly as the earth’s physical phenomena, is omnipresent, in literature as in life. Just as we do not live and function in a vacuum, literary events cannot transpire without some type of space, some sort of environment, however basic or unconventional it might be. But other than this initial stipulation that nature pervades all literature, further universals are difficult to defend. Perhaps the only other truth … Read the rest
I wrote this article at university on American myth of the wild west. Unfortunately I lost the works cited section. Therefore I don’t remember who Fink was to whose work I refer several times in the article.Apparently the West had some sort of wildness. It was the region where “civilization” arrived later. It had been the direction to go. And, in a sense, it had been what the young American … Read the rest
