Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Sept. 24th class- Invoke the Muses

*Friday Oct. 24th class dismissed!...But...
*Thursday Oct. 23rd, go to the Emerson cultural center auditorium at 7:00 P.M.  We will watch a film that the Sexsons have been creating!  

Literal
Descriptive
Formal
Archetypal
Anagogical

We have changed since we became literate!  "In Adam's fall, we sinned all"

What does this word mean in poem?  It  "It was more than that" 
Ramon Fernandez.  Did Steven's really just pick the name, or was it intentionally taken from an old, dead literary critic.

Thematic Myth: Inspired by the divine. (Metaphorical) scripture.

Mythos- Stories with plots.
Ethos- Characterization
Dianoia- Theme/Idea

Incantatory- sound alone. 
definition: a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic ; also : a written or recited formula of words designed to produce a particular effect.

Invoke the muses, and you will get an A! (Mnemosyne-muse of memory) Oh the irony that no-on can remember how to spell it!

Pg.56. NF

PLato created dialog. (dialogic imagination- Baktin) 
Ch. 10 of The Republic- the perfect state- art doesn't have a place-Imitation.
Plato- Imitation is not as good as real thing-  
Bed, cat (Travis the cat)
But...even a real bed or cat is an imitation of an ideal bed or cat. 
Believed poets were deranged.
The Ion of Plato (a dialogue)

Aristotle's Poetics. Plato, his tutor, was making fun of poetry....so Aristotle rebutted
How does Aristotle respond? 
Term paper: How do you respond?

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