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| Allusion to the epigraph in Great Gatsby |
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| Created the idea of the Dawning of an aspect, interpreting things in a new way. (Humor is a world view.) |
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| The mask a narrator puts on (to tell the story) |
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| the ordering of artistic information that we deduce/infer from selection and presentation of the details of the story |
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Renamed persona and voice
-Persona: the dramatized narrator
voice: the normative view of reality |
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| Maker of beautiful things |
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| (Latin), seer and sayer. Sees things that other people do not and writes them down so other people can learn about them |
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| the lexical meaning of the word (if you look it up in the dictionary) |
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| the associations that come with that word |
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Determinism--the belief that everything is predetermined--it doesn't matter what you do, what will happen will happen
- E.g. Jim's moving to Nebraska
-Jim's defeat of the snake |
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| A reference to an unnamed source |
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the reinstruction of a nation in its ideals and its standing proof of its resources for poetry
- Defintion by Stanley Cavell |
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| created the definition of the epic that we are studying |
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| Created the idea that in a novel, successful interpretations are frequently thematized (turned into the idea) as the arduous journey home or the weaving of a tapestry |
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| Any mention of "you are a part of a network/digital computer" |
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| --(Allusion to) Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 |
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| A growing up novel that shows to express the progress of a character through their acquistion of knowledge |
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the figurative substitution of one object with another figurative object
--E.g. The gnarled apples that are like Reefy's hands |
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| created the idea that literary form consists of the arousal of certain expectations on the part of the reader, and affirmation, denial, or alteration of those expectations |
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takes the part for the while, or more rarely, the whole for the part
E.g. hired hands |
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Breaking of the fourth wall, direct address to the reader
ALWAYS WORKS TO LESSEN AESTHETIC DISTANCE
-e.g. "and you too, sweetie" The crying of Lot 49 |
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A living French philosopher who argues for speculative realism
--There is a real world that we can know about,but we do so be beginning with speculation and then testing it |
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Idea that there is a real word that we can know about, but we do so by beginning with speculation and then testing it
-created by Meillasoux Quentin |
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| Jamison center of consciousness |
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There is a third person narrator, and we are only given the thoughts of only one character.
-character whose thoughts the audience knows. |
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Created the idea of bildungsroman
--Development of a character through the acquisition of knowledge |
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a figure of speech parallel in structure but reversed in order of corresponding terms
--Shows that there can be major change without falling into chaos
-E.g. ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country |
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Term created by Julia Kristeva
--the concept of being between two things, on a border between commitments, being on a threshold.
e.g. adolescene, Charity (b/w mountain and civilization) |
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| Stressed that the exact repetition makes things so powerful that the words cannot be subjected to elegant variation |
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| not necessarily nor impossible. E.g A horse is healthy (we do not know if the horse will win, but it is healthy) |
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| is a general term; allusion, satire, quotation |
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| "We don't need an Oedipus COmplex, we need an Odysesus complex" |
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| Julia Kristeva, we need to make connections with people unlike ourselves |
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| Believed that all people have souls (includes women, slaves, and foreigners). Julia Kristeva |
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"thisness",
Also refers to the individual self, the self within
-Julia Kristeva |
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Self within (individual) vs. the other/otherness
-Julia Kristeva |
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famous German critic. Suggested that there is a difference to the reader when reading a short story vs. a novel.
- When you read a story, you feel like you share a companionship with the narrator
-When you read a novel, you feel like you are all alone |
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Winesburg, Ohio
- Pervision of the sublime, people who stick to one truth until it becomes false |
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the mind going beyond itself, self correction
-E.g. Nick Carroway and how he changes throughout the book |
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- Term by Herder
concept of empathy-to see from another’s perspective |
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Danish philosopher who argued that there were responses to the gap between what is and what ought to be.
*Hypocrisy
*Irony |
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Leads to alienation
- Soren Kierkegaard |
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Leads to community
-Soren Kierkegaard |
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Ego sum= ego cum
I am = I am with
--Original state of being; we learn about ourselves through our relationships with others |
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| argued that knowledge is not like a tree, but a rihzome-- you start where you are and make connections |
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Literature is not timeless, but timeful. It is why allusions exist today
-the rug in Gatsby can be the sea-the building of allusion is possible by the timefull-ness of literature. |
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| Everyone thought that they were just pictures, they they then discovered the Rosetta Stone to help them translate |
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| values depth over surface |
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| A contradiction that still means something |
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| If you want to understand life, you have to think about death. We always carry/look to the negative to understand the positive. |
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| something that stands for something else |
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| Three levels of narrative |
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| Diegetic, extradiegetic, hypodiegetic |
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| Level of narrative, the level at which events take place within a story |
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| Level of narrative, where the narrator/audience is in the story |
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| Level of narrative, the story within the story |
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| Anything about a tuning form is from what book? |
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-The Great Gatsby. listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
-Mentioned as the catalyst that makes Gatsby kiss Daisy |
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| Anything about a chime is from what book? |
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From the Crying of Lot 49
--An allusion to the Great Gatsby |
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Created the idea of triangulation
-Self
-All others
-Non-human world |
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