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By Simon Haines, published 15/6/2006Has literature been hijacked by postmodernist teachers with an axe to grind?
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As a redneck, I am naturally concerned that the promotion of post marxist ideology seems to have become prevalent within our schools by preacher teachers. But even I have to admit that the study of literature does indeed include the study of the values and attitudes that were current at the time that the author wrote his or her work. That, to me, is what makes literature so interesting.
I still chuckle at the tract written by the Roman official, who reported on the character of the rebel British female cheiftain Boedicea. "She is said to be very intelligent, for a woman."
I think that literature is an interesting subject because it promotes the idea of thinking on different levels and in different dimensions. Examining contemporary attitudes is just one aspect of literature which fasciantes me. My only proviso is, that I find it disturbing if students are scored on the basis of their abilities to confirm the ideological convictions of their teachers, rather than their abilities to think for themselves.