Is literature a kind of ideology, in ideology’s “informal” or “common” meaning? No. Literature is in no way a form of ideology; it is an antidote to ideology. When we consider religion as a form of limitation and force, how can we place religion in literature? Well, much of literature deals with the same questions and mysteries that religions deal with. See for instance Greek tragedy or Dante’s Divine Comedy or Rumi’s Mesnevi. But this is not what I would call [...]







