Class:
Grid.
Critical vocabulary- someone who knows something, and uses a special kind of language.
assignment for Friday: "Find one box and go to town with it." Fallacy of misplaced completeness.
Comic irony- Pharmakos- scapegoat. Book of Leviticus in bible. (Ask Kari!) Pg. 46. Baseball- killing the Umpire. "Entire town wanted to kill Bill Buckner, 86 World Series. Lost game when the ball went through his legs. He had thousands of death threats"
Narrative VS theme. Are you more interested in the theme or the way that someone tells the story?
Stories are way's of displacing our literal desire to really do these things.
Mob violence. In reality...not cool. But in Literature? Crucifixion. The Oxbow Incident. To kill a Mockingbird.
Visionary Poet (Blake and Frye)
Idealist vs the realists.
*In apology paper, write to someone who is really upset that you chose to be an English major.
Story of Oedipus.
"If you read a book and you're depressed, (Titus Andronicus-Ovid's Metamorphoses) There's something wrong with either you, or the book. The only emotion you should have should be illumination, enlightenment, or joy). -Sexson or Frye. If the book is great, then...did you read it right?
The two categories are off limits in this class because we have already done that:
Tragic-High Mimetic
Comic-Low mimetic
High school- tragedy- Aristotelian definition. High Mimetic. One person with high status, leader, who is flawed.
Aristotle in a nutshell-Goldilocks. Hot, Cold, Just right. Some Like it Hot
Too short, the lyric. Too long, the epic. Just right...?
New critics: six elements to every poem: Plot, character, theme,
3 people out of 40 have been to high school in this class. Statistics???
Literary Criticism history
(What is the focus of the work?)
Ancient-World-mimetic (imitation)
Classic- audience-pragmatic
Romantic-artist-expressive
Modern-work-objective
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