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LITERATURE, THE WORLD, AND YOU
2016
Overview
We begin, then, where Quintilian would have us begin in this passage from the eighth book, sixth chapter, fourth part of hisInstitutio Oratoria, written at the end of the 1st century A.D., because the strongest claim I shall be making here is that lit er a ture is in your present (this is why we are taught to always refer to narrative events in the present tense); the world is in your time (etymologically, “world” means “man in time”); and theory is invariably localized and situated wherever you happen to be (since its origins in Greek antiquity,theoríameans
