How to approach literature?

Rita's approach to literature

Requirements for "proper students"

• appreciation
• a descrptive piece
• ® "crap"

p.25

• Howard's End = "crap"
• "We are not concerned with the poor" = crap

p.30

• It's borin
• He doesn't half get on my tits.
• reference to Harold Robbins

p.31

• D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers)
• Harold Robbins ( A Stone for Danny Fisher)
• Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage)
• ® all read in one week!

 p. 33

• Peer Gynt - "do it on the radio"
• I encapsulated all my ideas into one line

    p. 36

• What I learn from you about art an' literature , it feeds me inside.

• criticism is purely objective
• it is never subjective
• sentiment has no place

p. 25

• you cannot interpret Forster from a Marxist point of view.

p.26:

• "Literature can ignore the poor
• You have to begin to discipline that mind of yours

p.30

• Devouring pulp fiction is not being well read

  p.31

• You've got to be selective
• You seem to be under the impression that all books are literature
• It's a question of becoming discering in your choice

  p.34

• It's a sort of accepted ritual, a game with rules
• You must observe those rules
• A clever answer is not necessarily the correct answer
• outline your reasons supporting them with quotes from accepted authorities

  p.37

• "only connect"
• you'll have a much better understanding if you discover it in your own terms!