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Originally Posted by Lobolover
What I take for "bad" books,are realistic books.Lot's of "socialy critic" books.
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When looking at, for example,
The Grapes of Wrath, one can analyze that work (or other works, for that matter) within a contextual framework of
New Historicism, wherein a reader looks at the period and concerns in which the work was produced in order to see the intersections of ideology, discourse, and culture and how they help illumine individual biases.
In this manner, reading and analzying realitsic texts allows us to (perhaps) better understand texts as cultural artifacts, in addition to helping us to better understand ourselves.
Don