Why Read World Literature? by Katheryn Schrier

World literature teaches about the role of women in different cultures and different time periods.

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World literature teaches about different cultures.

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"We can understand that is going on in the hearts of others because we know what stirs our own hearts, and what could stir them."

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World literature teaches us about philosophy

"We could learn about how others lived - the Greeks, the men of the Middle Ages, our own contemporaries."

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World literature teaches about psychology.

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"Therefore, to add to its rich complexity, even while literature is exercising all our ways of knowing at once, it often is also taking two simultaneous perspectives, the personal and the social"

Shows consequences of choices

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"We could learn about how others lived...how they judged one another, what they considered good manners, how they fell in love, what their family life was like, how they structured their society, when they dined, how they grew up and took their place in the world of adults."

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Literature is similar to the collective unconscious. It is a reservoir of shared experiences.

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It teaches us about our connections to the text. Often referring to it through our inner/outer reality or our personal/social reality.

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Literature transcends time and cultures.

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