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Russia had only recently emerged from four hundred years of feudalism, a system of government that required peasants, labelled as “serfs”, to spend their lives working the land where they were born with little to no chance of ever improving
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Now this is a good description to start off with. To bad Captivating History didn't say things like this. The serfs revolt! No more class abuse!
“An intense response to a work will have its roots in the capacities and experiences already present in the personality and mind of the reader.”
― Literature as Exploration
― Literature as Exploration
“I don’t think he took a bath very often either. He had a thick Scottish accent so that half the time I couldn’t understand what he was saying. But the worst thing was that as soon as we met”
― Abducted
― Abducted
“A mother can see into her child’s heart merely by looking at his shadow.”
― Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea
― Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea
“One reason why North Korea is unable to pursue reform and open itself more to the world is that this would risk exposing core dogmas of the state as mere fabrications.”
― Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime
― Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime
“Through the medium of words, the text brings into the reader's consciousness certain concepts, certain sensuous experiences, certain images of things, people, actions, scenes. The special meanings and, more particularly, the submerged associations that these words have for the individual reader will largely determine what the work communicates to him. The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment, and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the peculiar contribution of the text.”
― Literature as Exploration
― Literature as Exploration
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