Review Day / Last day of class
Final Exam is on Thursday, Dec 18th at 8am.
Last Paper Presentations:
Chris and his power. Scares a man with his destination. Heavy immovable ruby. Finds a castle. Staircases all around, even hairy ones. Monsters that speak beautifully. Amazing hair, but they smell funny. He talks to them about his power: recites the story of his journey.
Jon’s poem, live in the leaves.
Alex’s apology. No non-english majors should apologize. Music is poetry. We still learn even if it isn’t true. Writing is the best way to live. It’s all encompassing. Where’s the lasers, flowers, and ladies in distress.
Review for test.
Sexson’s 12 minutes: Hooked on his pencils.
Six group presentations
New Critisism aka Fromalism, values technique, saty inside the text. Unity in text. “Well wrought Urn” by Cleanth Brooks, modeled on Keats’ Grecian Urn. Meter, Rhyme, Structure
Deconstructionism affirms and deviated from new criticism. No meaning possible from texts. Deconstruction says there is no outside the text. Everything is a text to be read. A story. We read people, weather, animal intestines. How can you stay inside a text if everything is a text. There is no such thing as a unified whole. No such thing as outside the text. Frye’s quote that started class “all structures of words are partly rhetorical and hence literary.” Frye is a deconstuctionist.
Feminism: Reductive vs. Expansive.
Reductive: only looks at feminine aspects, women in texts, treatment of women, power of women.
Expansion: domination within texts, similar to Marxism, Bell hooks in presentation.
Reader Response: metaphor of spectacles. Different spectacles present work differently. See selves in work of literature. Bring on experiences into texts. We can’t help it. Santa Clause in “Walking through woods on a snowy evening.”
-Tangent: Sexson nearly ruined the Christmas program; the poem is about death!! -
You can’t make a poem or anything mean whatever you want it to mean, that’s anarchy!
Psychoanalysis: Don’t make fun of Freud. HE created your ‘ego.’ One of the great inventors by saying the truth is unseen
Marxism: We do not see the things around us as they really are. Social truths that reveal underlying economic and social. Marxism looks at what’s hidden underneath the text that implies social hierarchies and economic class structures and struggles.
Questions –
What’s the difference b/w a complaint and criticism? From DQ.
Harold Bloom believes that Edith Grossman is the ______ of translators? Glen Gould
What enchanted thing does Don Antoino tell DQ about truth? The enchanted head
Don Quixote of the Stain, the stain-glass window. Spanish verb Manchar – to stain.
What happened to DQ in the cave of montisimos? Add years to life, genre of the cave
What was the name of the knight that defeated DQ? The knight of the White Moon.
Who really was the knight of the mirrors, the white moon, and the knight of the wood? Bachlor Carasco.
DQ page 804, “To believe…” quote
Frye, who owns more spectacles than anyone, on page 346 writes, “The culture of the past is not only the memory of mankind, but our own buried life, and the study of it leads to a recognition scene, a discovery in which we see, not only our past lives, but the total cultural form of our present life. It is not only the poet but is reader who is subject to the obligation to ‘make it new.’”
To be original go back to the origins!!
‘She sang beyond the genius of the sea,
The water never formed to mind or voice,
Like a body, wholly body, fluttering
Its empty sleeves, and yet its mimic motion
Made constant cry, caused constantly a cry
That was not ours, although we understood,
Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.”
