*Obscurity in NF. So entire Wednesday before test will be dedicated to mapping out the questions on the test. Bring one question on Thursday from NF to put on test.
*Next Shelley's Apology
Sidney: Poets present us with a golden world, nature can give brass. Mimesis.
Plato condemned poet.
Aristotle rescued poet by suggesting that poet represented a significant human action.
Sydney said poet improves nature. People presented (Renaissance/Neo-classical/pragmatic) as exemplified human beings.
Corona An online Journal that The Sexsons edit.
Shelley pushes envelope further with respect to imitation. Moves close to where we are in the Idea of Key West. Nature disappears completely. God-like poet.
Poet doesn't affirm anything, therefore the poet doesn't lie. Opposed to historians and philosophy. Deals with hypothetical situations.
Treason of the clerks. Most of us live in these two phases:
- Myth to irony. Low mimetic. Realism. Reality vs possibility. Step back from world of belief and action.
- Descriptive phase. Matching what is said with what exists.
"Literature encourages tolerance. Bigots and fanatics don't have any use of the arts. Because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and their actions..." NF
Dialogical imagination: The characters lose the authors intentions, and they write their own script.
Pg. 116- Parallelism between grids.
- Literal meaning has to do with thematic irony. Poetry is an ironic structure.
- New Critics-Formal phase- high mimetic.
- Archetypal (patterns)-romance (Frye's favorite). Stories are in conversation with other stories.
- We are in Descriptive phase. Symbolism-low mimetic. Ex: What does the author mean? Today, literature tricks us into thinking that literature is a transparent glass that we see through to see our world. (Sexson)
- Anagogical-mythic.
Look at Symbols in NF Pg. 115 @ 116
Historical grid. Dante's divine comedy.
DQ-known as first modern novel.
new definition of literal.
Dante's levels of meaning from the bible:
- Polysemous (multiple meaning). Literal
- Allegorical
- Moral
- Anagogical (vision)
Pgs. to look at in the phases ch.
Literal pg. 77
Descriptive pg.78-79
Formal pg. 84, 85, 87, 93, 94
Mythical pg. 97, 100, 105 (woo-woo)
Anagogical pg. 119, 121
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