Monday, November 3, 2008

Nov. 12th- class-Test Review

*Test on Friday

  • Frye 119, 136-141, 147, 148, 153, 156, 163, 165, 187, 214, 215, 223
  • 3 apologists for poetry
Arnold: Poetry is substitution for religion. Touchstone.
Walter Pater: Art for arts sake.
Keats: 3 things: 
  1. negative capability
  2. Remembrance
  3. Veil of soul making
  •  The movie: My Book and Heart
  • First half of DQ

  • 9 specific critics:
Longinus- sublime
I. A. Richards- pseudo-statement (all literature is hypothetical)
Juila Kristeva- Intertextuality (books are about books)
Oscar Wilde- Life is an imitation of art (more than art is an imitation of life).
Stanley Fish- Poetry is that which one sees with poetry seeing eyes
William Blake- Imagination, Visionary
Bakhtin- Carnival (Literature is bawdy...human body)

  • Idea of Key West (Recite from Ramon Fernandez) What is he asking RF to say?!?
  • Class questions:
  1. DQ slices _______ and not... (wineskins)
  2. NF. (145) Anagogic level_____ is the _____ of nature. (Man, container)
  3. Bloom's introduction...compares SP to ______ and _______ (Hamlet, Falstaff)
  4. As myth moves to irony, metaphor is to _________ (simile)
  5. B&H Literature moves us from (innocence to experience)
  6. Who said that it is not the fruit of the experience but the experience itself (Pater)
  7. Matthew Arnold wrote that we are suffering from (Crisis of Faith and criticism of life)
  8. Frye (pg. 225) compares DQ to which Archetypal character? (The white knight of Alice in Wonderland)
  9. According to Arnold, what power does the best poetry have? (Inform and delight as nothing else can)
  10. Terms for filling up and emptying out are ( Plerosis, Kenosis)
  11.  Is Frye a half empty or half full guy? (Full. Comedy and Romance)
  12. Who does DQ believe roamed free during the golden age? (virgins)
  13. NF. Two great forms of undisplaced myths are the _____ and the _____ (apocalyptic and demonic)
  14.  four phases...(mortification, purgation, invigoration, and jubilation).
  15. What does this saying mean: "What's the difference?" (deconstruction)
  16. DQ is a mirror held up not to nature but to_________ (the reader)
  17. 187 NF 3 parts of the myth of Summer (conflict, death struggle, recovery).
  18. 148 NF Physical or the actual is opposed to the ________ (hypothetical- Literature isn't real)
  19. Negative god appears in the section of the demonic. Ch. 3
  20. Who is DQ's squire and what does his name mean? (Sancho Panzo, belly)
  21. NF. Structural principles of literature are to be derived from (Archetypal-mythology  and Anagogic-religion)
  22. In what seasonal pattern does the sense of relief come when the New Year has become (Jubilation- lets party!)
  23. 162 NF Top half- romance...bottom half-realism
  24. Keats believes that poetry should (Surprise In Excess)
  25. The word demonic comes from (daemon) and what does it mean?
  26. DQ is in all of the seasonal cycles.
  27. Pg 119. In anagogy we are not in the center of things, we are in the_____(circumference)
  28. Name the 4 master tropes (metaphor, metonomy, synecdoche, irony
  29. Negative capability is when the artist becomes___ so the work becomes___(nothing, everything)
  30. What mode would innocence be placed in? (Myth)


Gabby- critic: Ralf Waldo Emerson
Nature and Self Reliance
The American Scholar
"Father of American Literature"
Poet preacher orator
Inspirational writing
Journals. Critics of literary religious and educational...encouraged rejection of traditional values.
transadentialist movement

Carly- critic: William Blake
Very much like Frye
Anogogical phase
Visionary...creates in spiritual world
symbolism. Form and image are the same thing. 1000 realities.
Senses go directly to imagination
Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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