I have just joined this list but I should like to contribute to the
dialogue on "the object". I personally do not feel that literature can be
extricated from the culture in which it is produced. I feel that Bakhtin is
right when he says that literature is dialogic, containing many different
voices--social classes, races, professions and ideological discourses. I
feel it would be a false assumption to take literature and set it apart from
cultural beliefs and "norms". However, I feel that we can bring other
things into it as well. Note: I am a student, about to get my BA in English.
I am by no means a scholar.
Sara
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