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Marco has graduated with a 2.1 in English Literature degree from the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has been writing professionally for two years, been published in countless print and online publications and uses Helium to spread his love of writing.

Arts & Humanities > Literary Themes & Ideas Over-analyzing literature

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Whatever happened to aesthetics? If we trackback to the Romantics, we have a collection of writers who were focussed on one aim: the appreciation of the world. As soon as Literature became a teachable subject, (which incidentally was only of late, when compared to Mathematics or History), it meant that there was enough critical theory for it to be considered academic. This leads us towards an unavoidable circle. Critics need something to analyse and literature needs to be produced. One cannot exist without the other. Literature is considered a form of high culture in today's society, but t...

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