This is a bit of information from the first day of class. I know some people may not have been there for scheduling reasons.
-A Ballad is part of popular culture NOT part of the elite or educated. It is made for the people.
- You must look at the literature in the context that it was created from. Not through our perspective today but from their perspective back then.
- Makdisi talked about Wordsworth and Coleridge a lot. Particularly Lyrical Ballads. Talking about nature was not considered aesthetic then, it was viewed as political.
- Literature is never far from politics
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By R. Marquez
T.A.-Ian Newman
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