Literature Like A Professor Criticism

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“[W]riters tend to be men and women who are interested in...power structures, relations among classes, issues of justice and rights, interactions between the sexes and among various racial constituencies” (Foster 122). When these authors write about these topics, it often involves criticism of the society around them.Throughout Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Foer implicitly criticizes the society of modern America about an issue that has existed even before the country itself did— racism. In How To Read Literature Like a Professor, the author explains political criticisms are not often explicit: “Woolf handles all of this so subtly that we may not think of it as political, but it is” (Foster 123). Acknowledging Foster’s statement, certain
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