Word: understandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They didn't understand," Chaouli remembers, "that the second interpretation lives off the first. Literature doesn't drive to one point that you can write down and say on an exam...
...There is still, of course, certain information that must be known to study literature. "You need to know what happens on a structural level to understand the excesses to that structure that authors use," Chaouli says...
...They didn't understand," Chaouli remembers, "that the second interpretation lives off the first. Literature doesn't drive to one point that you can write down and say on an exam...
There is still, of course, certain information that must be known to study literature. "You need to know what happens on a structural level to understand the excesses to that structure that authors use," Chaouli says...
...hard to understand exactly how romantic love came to be elevated to the position of privilege it now occupies in Western thought. It might have its roots in the medieval tradition of courtly love, which originated in southern France in the eleventh century largely as a reaction to the drabness and poverty of life at the time and to the oppressive rigidity of the feudal system. It eventually would become a justification for sexual activity outside the normative channels of marriage (see, for instance, the story of Tristan and Isolde or of Lancelot and Guinevere), something that might have motivated...