Monday, October 27, 2008

Oct 27th class- "And because he's simple, I love him with all my heart"

Dustin-  Critic: Samuel Johnson
turrets syndrome. Popular Lies of Poets series
poetry and biographies.
Poetry should be simple to understand.
Biography should be only truth, not praise...but, lit should still be read.
Good and original.  But the part that is good is not original, and part that is original is not good.
 
Kari- critic: Longinus
Deeply influential "On the sublime" did he really write it?
Authentic aim is whether or not it reaches the sublime.
Sublime- that which cannot be expressed. Beyond anything else. Flash of lightening.
Can be achieved in lit.  Exalted expression of language and control of metaphors.  
*Homer and Sappho.

Erica- critic: Michel Foucault
French philosopher and critic
French prisons
Does not like labels.
3 volume history of sexuality.
Latin and Greek works.  Repression hypothesis (in sexuality) refuted.
Agrees with 60's and 70's views. question anything that is defined as one thing.

Jake- critic: Julia Kristeva
Southern Bulgaria...sweet accent!
psycho-analyst
France when 25 years old in the sixties.
didn't like structuralism. Signifier-meaning
Instead, seminalysist. No actual meaning. Depends on how things are said. Ex: cooking pie!!!?
Intertextuality- Homer. etc...

Comments on My Book My Heart
Didactic messages. comedic in ironic phase.
Death and re-birth when we start reading. Innocence. Nf Myth to Irony is innocence to experience.  Is also the world from life to death. DQ....
Synecdoche (A new movie is coming out with this word as a name of the city)
Most important trope in Lit crit. One thing stands for something much bigger.

When did you tell your first lie?
Literature wants to represent this passage, as from one phase to another. but ? 
In DQ, Pg. 536, everyone in part two has read part one...they feel compelled to imitate themselves.
 "Night (or is it knight) of the woods and his squire"  a new set of DQ and SP
*know this passage "Ah fool but grave....mine's as innocent as a baby...and because he's simple, I love him with all my heart..."
Characters are reversed.  Idealist vs realist.  Continuum from myth to reality.

Pg. 153 in Frye
Rose garden. 


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