The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Related Keywords: Culture Literature Authority Through Sense High Us
Related Authors: Mark Twain Oscar Wilde Thomas Jefferson Henry David Thoreau John Lennon Ralph Waldo Emerson Niccolo Machiavelli
