Nov. 7th class-Daemons

Exam on Friday- 

• Only responsible for the first half of the book!!! (wow!) Thank you Dr. Sexson.
  
• Intro to NF by Bloom.
• Words or phrases that we think the class should know about our critics

Kayla- critic: Annett Kol0dny

Literary Journals.

Radical eco-feminist

Domestic fictioness. 

Challenged wilderness of Adam. Land and women, what we have done to both.

Book: The Lay of the Lamb

Maggie- critic: Louis Gates JR

Middle Age African American man

forum: the roots.com (what not to do if you are white or black in celebration of elect Obama)

Born in W. Virginia in 1950

History, English Lit

Norton anthology of African American lit

Jessie- critic: William Wordsmith

Born in 1770 orphaned. Long walks- nature is healing.

Cambridge University

Poetry should not be confusing. Common life in common language. Show how much nature effects people.

Read sister's diary. 

Douglas- critic: T.S. Eliot

American poet, playwright, and lit critic

Learned crank. Schooled throughout the world. well-read. Classics. was a modernist.

Contemporary issues of the time combined with past issues.

Poetry begins with what are you previously existed.

Hamlet and His Problems (Shakespeare was flawed)

Objective correlative. Look at each words meaning.

Class:

Frye understands literature as arising from rituals.

Rituals of Kenosis and plerosis.

Pullman's book: The Dark Materials. cannot look at things dualistically.

Tolken and Lewis...Academic Christians 

Why is Jesus a Lion instead of a lamb?  Because the story requires a lion.

Right or wrong? Imagination working itself out.

The word demon comes from the Greek Daemon, or another part of your personality or your psyche. Thought of as the inferior part. (Alter ego) But could it be your angel? Seen as positive.

In the Dark Materials Trilogy, everyone has an animal (anima-soul) that is opposite but completes them.  The wicked people are trying to get rid of the daemons.

(Jungian psychology)

NF- these works are not a contradiction, except in the level of content.

Nf Pg. 146 Bad gods.

Gnostic- demurge- the snake is the savior who liberated Adam and Eve from ignorance.

Sarah Palin mythos (Hardy frontier woman having babies)

NF 165 illumination, 187 quest, 215 tragedy, 223irony