Monday, November 10

"We are no longer interested in the truth, but the experience"

Eve Sedgwich (Joan)

• paranoid reality
• automatic responses to issues
• remain open to new ideas
• normal/ abnormal, legal/ illegal labels helps this
  
  

Stanley Fish (Kevin)

• Miltonic scholar without taking any classes on him
• wrote a brilliant paper about him
• reader-response critic
• interpreted communities
• relative to critics- convicted in their believes
• controversial antics 'maverick'
• ambiguous political beliefs
• 'one smart dude' ~Sophist
• New York times blog
• "a poem is what one sees when looking with poetry-seeing eyes"

Susan Gubar and Sandra Gilbert (Chris)

• 'the mad women in the attic' were feminists in the 70's
• angels and monsters- men are made it two molds: 1) pure, and 2) rebellious
• neither represents women
• break away from these ideas
• finding yourself is most important

Homi K. Bhabha (Derek)

• post-colonial theorist
• prose criticised 'too much jargon'
• 'questions of cultural identity' book
• hybrid culture/ partial culture
• post structuralism

Virginia Wolfe (Bobby)

• not crazy, but mad
• bipolar
• 'a room of one's own' - opinion of a minor point, need money and a room for a woman to write
• feminist? publisher and critic
• stream of consciousness
• modernist movement
• not happy, sad life
• committed suicide by jumping into the water
• 'to the lighthouse' book

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Touchstones:

• it's ok if it's didactic
• Ezra Pound- metro poem= all about the images
• 'art for the sake of art, not the ideas'

Philip Pullman:

• Wallace Steven's 'The Auroras of Autumn'
• 'the art of memory' by Frances Yeats

N. Frye:

• seasonal phases pg 158- 62
• the dead day 'totital'