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Coming up from under. Longinus: On the Sublime. In an example from Homer. The compostition and decompostion of language becomes the sublime. It is thought that it cannot be broken down again but it is still subject to tropes as we see with Demosthenes and Hyperides example and thus we reach the double bind of the sublime. |
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Author: Aristotle Work: On Poetics Term: Life/Art Description: Life is incomplete. Art fills the gap. This begs the question of what a is art? Is it more natural than nature. If art is poetics filling in natures gap, are poetics more natural than nature. The poetics are suppose to fill in nature through mimesis. |
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Term: Looking at Author: Warmisnsky lecture Description: We are looking at an object of theory. We then apply this by drawing boarders,defining, but we will always be subjective to our object, language. |
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Author: Plato, Republic Term: Style Description: Divided into mimesis and diegesis. Mimesis is when one speaks in somone else's voice, a characters voice. The poet doesn't use his own voice so it becomes an attack on rhetoric. Diegesis is a simple narrative when the author speaks in his own voice. End with the metaphore by analogy. idea of the bed is to the carpenters bed as The carpenters bed is to the painters bed. |
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Aristotle: On Poetics Plot has a description and a dynamis. The dynamis is catharsis which is the purgation of pity and fear. Description: The problem is that plot as a grammar cannot create a cathartic experience. |
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Term: Abuse of methaphor Author: Aristotle, On Poetics What does the sun do to its rays? It is impossible to tell. The metaphor by analogy is the proof for this abuse. The sun is to x as the sower is to his sowing seed. |
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| The breath of logos. The philosophy of Plato is Metaphysics. His example of this metaphysical model happens in Egyptian symbols. Symbols will lead directly to meaning. They avoid rhetoric. So we have the ontological part of this, the logos. However, it is mimesis because symbols are tropes no matter what. |
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| The philosophy of Plato is metaphysics. finding meaning beyond the physical. His example of this metaphysics through Egyptian symbols. Symbols will lead directly to meaning. They avoid rhetoric. So we have the ontological part of this, the logos. However, it is mimesis becasue symbols are tropes no matter what. |
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| The transcendental method |
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| a priori. "I call all knowledge transcendental if it is occupied, not with objects, but with the way that we can possibly know objects even before we experience them. |
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