Friday, December 5

Group Presentations:

Group 1: Celebrity Jeopardy

NEW CRITICISM

• Contestants:

1. Burt Reynolds: Derek
2. Keanu Reeves: Jessi
3. Sarah Pallin: Brielle
4. Sean Connery: Kevin
5. Alec Trebek: Carly

• unity in poetry
• 'inside the text only'

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Group 2: Case against William Blake

DECONSTRUCTIONISTS:

Maggie, Chris, Doug, Sheryl, Joan

• court case against profanity in 'The Sick Rose'
• meaning is ambiguous
• Freud: all about sex
• Derrida: don't read into things
• Gotemer: deconstructionist: all individual
• Reese's- tons of ways to eat a Reese's
• inside the text only, like new criticism- against the excess of the text
• "there is no outside the text"
• only meaning inside the text: NO YOU, no ultimate meaning, everything is a text