Class:
Translation of the word apology. Sydney and Shelly use apologies as validations and defenses.
Ratatouille-critic. Judgment. Arbiter of taste. Cliches.
Groups. Schools of literary criticism.
To see an exemplary blog, check out this site: http://www.geocities.com/the_abhorsen/litcritindex.html
Group 1: New critics Centripetals (pedals) goes in. Stay inside the text.
Group 2: Deconstructors (almost opposite of new critics)
Group 3: Feminists
Group 4: Reader response
Group 5: Marxists (social energies)
Group 6: Psychoanalysis
Group 7: Postcolonialists
Centrifugues (fugues) Out
Handout on article about a woman who's favorite, least favorite high school teacher made her memorize Lycidas.
Northrop Frye in one line: "All literature is displaced myth"
Right now, focus on Frye on blogs.
Next blog, find a passage on Frye that you understand.
Try to figure out what literature is, not what it means.
"If you put lipstick on a pig, its still a pig" Phrases that operate in political discourse. Rhetorical images.
What is the myth in Key West? Persephone? Displaced words.
Frye's stages in anatomy of criticism:
Myth (europa?) (creation?)
Decline
Romance
High mimetic mode
Low mimetic mode
Ironic
*Extra credit: Diagram two sections of the seasonal patterns and the twenty questions in Archetypes of Literature
"all of life is an affair of weather"
Literature is a pattern of weather.
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