Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Oct. 31st class-The ant and the Grasshopper

*Bring chart on Mon.

Lisa- critic: Giambattista Vico
Italian philosophers rhetorician
Melancholy.
Published poetry.  Poetry-history?
Truth itself is constructed.  Necessity of nature.
Civilization is acyclical development
divine-metaphor
heroic-metonymy and synectoque
man-irony, chaos.

Danielle- critic: Eric Auerbach
Jewish German
wrote Mimisis..rhetorical vs realist
Modern realism. Humanist.
History is cicical, not linear
Representation of reality!

Chelsey- critic: Samuel T Cooleridge
England
Fabrication through imagination.
Romantic literature.
not interested in didactic.
The Imagination
Primary imagination-THE INFINITE I AM
The second, Echo of the former
Poetic faith- art awakens.
Willing suspension of disbelief-ones own relationship with art.

Sarah- critic: Hayden White
Historian.  Tropes. International symposium
Predestined for greatness.
80 years old. 
Wrote: Figural Realism and Meta history
Writing of history is a poetic act.
Aesthetic element.  Epistemological element. Ethical element.
Master tropes...MMSI

Class:
New Historian (Interpretation and tropes) Historian (Facts) 
Anagogy. (Jon) TO DO...to act? Ritual.  

Immortality Pg. 556 of DQ 
Bloom: DQ represents the pleasure principle. Neither fool or madman " "He sees what we see, yet he sees something else also" A possible glory.
Quixotic-Pursuing an impossible dream.
Immortality of Cervantes, Shakespeare, which are retellings of Ovid. 
"So long as men can breathe and eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
Mary (realist)  Martha (pleasure principle). Ant and the grasshopper

Pg. 136. NF
Apocalyptic and Demonic.
Kenosis- Emptying out. (Pessimist)
Plerosis- Filling up. (Optimist)

Symbolism. 
Seasons
  • Spring- filling up (Plerosis)
  • Summer-fullfilment
  • Autumn-Emptying (Kenosis)
  • Winter- Death
Myth:  This this IS that. Opposite is realism...like...like...like
Naturalism-realism on steroids
Romance
Displacement. 

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