Homework for tonight (by Friday):
Choose a touchstone poem for yourself.
Heather-critic: Helene Cixous
To be..what are you?
Iran Algeria, Jewish German
expelled because of Jewish heritage
Intertwine masculine and feminine or get rid of both.
The Laugh of Medusa
encourage women to communicate with body
women write differently
Brittney- critic: Wolfgang Iser
German.
intercultural exchange.
reader response theory.
hermetics (biblical or classics)
Alex- critic: Sigmund Freud
Lay down.
Czech Republic
psychoanalytic school.
repression. ID EGO SUPEREGO
dreams
sexuality. Phallic. Oedipus complex. childhood.
Master tropes- condensation displacement, civilization,
Jiwon- Edward Said
Difference between western epistemology and history
imperialism and orientalism relationship.
Barbarianism, civilization
History interpreted from western point of view.
Class: Focus on just ONE POINT with your critic. Day before test, we will figure out what is most important with each critic.
Judson- gave his T.V. to his neighbor...let's ban it, until after dinner.
You can register while you actually go to vote!!!
Places to vote are listed in newspaper.
Sexson's Pitch: vote for the six-mil levy
vote against dualism
intellectual excitement
Arnold:
"Poetry is a criticism of life"
"criticism is an interpretation and evaluation of the meaning of human existence"
"Truth is a construct" Vico
"Truth is a mobile army of metaphors" Nietzsche
Unconscious poetry. "More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to provide for us to console us to sustain us and to interpret life for us"
Idea of touchstones
Idea of religion
NF Pg 139
Sunny disposition. Connection to sun. Romantic idea with a halo...
Three organizations of myth and archetypes
Undisplaced myth (World of total fantasy...gods and demons...)
- Apocalyptic (totally positive) impossibly powerful gods and humans, city of gold, unknown is water.
- Demonic (totally negative) the wolf, the city is no utopia but distopia...
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