Category: Historicity and genealogy of literature
Historicity of English – we should think of Literature as genealogical; that texts trace their meaning backwards through branch, trunk to root. Literature uses the themes, motifs and imagery established much earlier. The tradition of literature is to continue the retelling of these in new ways, by new authors. DoE breaks historicity into Early English, Premodern English, Modern English, and Postmodernity.
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What if every story is really the same story? A recent lesson began with a challenge to a common assumption in English teaching: that students learn Literature by studying individual texts. Instead, students were introduced to the idea of literary genealogy—the concept that all stories belong to the same enduring tradition and share a common…
