In the posts that follow over the next couple of months, I’ll post short entries on a host of authors and works. The information and analysis I provide will use the covenant model to cover the following topics.
AUTHOR: When was the author alive, and when was the work written?
HIERARCHY: Where did the author contextually place him/herself in society, and where does this particular stand when placed in the context of the author’s other works?
CONFESSION OF FAITH: What was the author’s ethical code? Does the work correspond or clash with that code, and how?
CONSEQUENCES: What kind of consequences did the author’s ethical code have on his/her life? How do the concluding emotions/actions of the work reinforce or correspond to the work’s ethical code?
LEGACY: What is the cultural legacy of the author, and what effect has the work had in the world since its publication?
Experiments in Criticism 