"Hamlet is one of the great procrastinators in literature" ~Dr. Sexson
Giambattista Vico (Lisa)
- Italian
- humanist melancholy
- 'the new science'
- creations, not investigation
- humanization is cyclical: divine (metaphor), heroic (satonomy and synecdoche), man (irony), and chaos (gibberish)
- truth is a construction
Eric Auerbach (Danielle)
- jewish
- rhetorical rep in Odyssey, tyrannical in bible
- Dante and Shakespeare inspired
- no originality, all writing is based on close readings
- history is cyclical, not linear
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Chelsea)
- poet, Romantic, critic
- lyrical ballad- philosophical and critical approach to literature- begins w/ rhyme
- imagination is important to literature
- infinite 'I am' in lit
- poetic faith
- willing suspension of disbelief
Hayden White (Lisa)
- historian
- nothing about himself- knows he was destined for greatness because born in the same year as famous people (James Dean and Shirley Temple)
- figural realism (literary vs historical)
- history is poetical
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- What does 'to do' mean? To act
- battlefield of truth: ritual= drama to do
- immortality: pg 556 of DQ- man in green "And so the man who uses and treats poetry in the requisite ways that I have mentioned will be famous, and his name esteemed, in all the civilized nations of the world."
- neg cap vs immortality
- Philip Pullman was a great fan of Keats
- pg 22: intro "I return to my question... he sees what we see, yet he sees something else too."
- Freud's 'pleasure principle' vs 'reality principle' is present here
- immortality: Ovid, Shakespeare and Cervantes
- Brian Talbot quoting Woody Allen
- Sonnet 18
- 'no day but today' from rent
- 'art for art's sake' Oscar Wilde
- grasshopper and ant fable
- 'truth is a construction' said Vico
- kenosis: emptying out/ plerosis: filling up
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