Friday, December 12

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS:

Chris:

• Dream about the power he has
• Chronicles about a man that falls through the cracks, finds a ruby and chooses stairs

John:

• Wrote a depressing story
• Presentation a poem: about autumn taking away, but finding life

Alex:

• Doesn’t want to apologize because the non-English majors should apologize to him
• If you listen to music, you listen to poetry
• Learn even through fiction
• Write down what you know, and make others know it
• Writing is the best way for him to live and help others learn
• Likes the fiction, not the reality (literature creates other realities)

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TEST QUESTIONS:

1. new criticism: ‘formalism’ values technique; the text itself; stay inside the text; likes unity in works; no irrelevant personal associations
2. deconstruction: no absolute meaning to any text; contrasting new: there is no outside the text; everything is a text; counters unity: everything works towards: ‘the well wrought urn’ by cleanth brookes; STC: form and satisfaction in every part, like the whole; ‘everything is partially rhetorical, and therefore literary… if so then our literary universe has expanded into a…’ said Frye (pg 350), Frye was one of these
3. feminism: reductive: looking at the text w/ spectacles that see author, characters and how they should be thought of: throw away if not there. expansive: bell hooks, what kind of literary work and understandings about gender
4. reader-response: classroom metaphors of the spectacles: ‘see everything differently w/ different glasses’ you see what you want to see; ‘irreverent’ connections are important; you see what’s there and yourself too; Santa= death to Sexson; it doesn’t mean that you can make a poem mean whatever you want it to mean, but you can see things that are connected
5. psycho-analysts: don’t make fun of Freud, he was one, YOU created by him, great inventors of the modern age because the truth is unseen
6. Marxism: don’t see what’s around us; look at social cultures and relationships; class struggles; Fight Club fits everything
   
   1. Criticism vs complaint: (pg ? DQ)
   2. In Harold Bloom’s intro Edith Grossman was the __________ of translators. ~ Glen Gould
   3. What secret enchanted thing does Don Antonio and DQ that can tell the truth? ~ the enchanted head
   4. What is the English translation of DQ in Spanish? ~DQ of the stains (stained glass windows)
   5. What happens to DQ in the cave of Montesano’s? ~years were added to his life- genre of literature where time is irrelevant (long and short)
   6. Name of Knight? ~knight of white moon
   7. Who really was the name who put on the knight of the mirrors, moons and woods? ~Bachelor Carasco
   8. pg 804 DQ “to believe that the things of this life will remain unchanged is to believe the ________?” ~the impossible
   9. pg 346: Frye, he’s a spectacle-wearing fool “the culture of the past is not only the memory of man-kind, but our own buried life, and the study of it leads to a recognition…in which we see not our past lives but the …reader is … make it new” to make it new you have to make it old, back to the origins
   10. Ezra Pound: ‘make it new’
   
   *Only 25 questions, 2 points each
   *NEED TO KNOW: the poem, DQ, and criticism schools