*Know this for test:
The Five Phases of Symbols:
Literal- motif
Descriptive- sign
Formal- image
Archetypal- myth
Anagogical- monad
This list should be circular. (Tautology) Literal and anagogical will look alike.
Stopping by Woods...Literal meaning is the poem.
Cannot just read as an idiot, but must come back to reading just for the poem.
Theory of modes is circular too. When irony is present, than it is nothing more than myth. "It's all Groundhogs Day"
Matt's Batman blogs. Comic books like Don Quixote, about fictional people who are realistic. "It's real to me."
Back story to batman: Parents killed as a kid. Raised by butler. Name: Bruce Wayne.
Archetype of hero.
Aristotle's idea of heroes.
Sir Phillip Sydney's Apology: Imitation where of poetry is...those things which in themselves are horrible...in literature are delightful....
We desire to imitate.
*Mark in DQ when someone repeats Chelsea's comment. About giving up on un-realistic beliefs.
How does Aristotle counter Plato's treatment of poetry? Categorization.
Comedy: Phallic rites.
The Name of the Rose. A book on Aristotle's lost book on comedy.
Tragedy: Six elements.
*Know ch. 6 on test.
Aristotle said: Poet is one who selects the most important things to imitate.
Tragedy is an imitation, mimesis, of an action, praxis, which is a serious completion of a certain
"Imitation is an insight into the truth of something. The poet gives truth because the poet is not interested in giving the bed. Poet gives bedness." (Sexson)
Instead of making you want to go out and imitate what you read about, Aristotle argues that it has been done in literature, so people don't have to. Catharsis-purging self of...
Ex: Football.
Ex: Oedipus Rex.
Censorship.
Gone in sixty seconds- Car theft went up thirty percent.
V- for Vendetta- vandalism.
Aristotle rescues the poet. He made realistic less important than philosophy.
*Don't forget to use innuendo quotes.
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