If you had to teach this course in two semesters, covering everything from Aritotle's Poetics to Deconstruction, and you had to choose just one text as an example to apply all kinds of theories and criticism to throughout the whole year, what would you choose?
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Re: Literary Criticism and Theory
Mon, May 28, 2007 - 12:07 PMThe Inferno.
What are the classic Turkish texts used for this purpose? -
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Re: Literary Criticism and Theory
Tue, May 29, 2007 - 11:15 AMI don't think anyone does it.
I kind of wouldn't want to use anything in translation...
but it doesn't matter anymore, because I'm not teaching the class anymore, anyway.
I got Rise of the English Novel and Rise of American literature. -
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Re: Literary Criticism and Theory
Tue, May 29, 2007 - 1:26 PMI got Rise of the English Novel and Rise of American literature.
This implies that they both fell at some point or will fall. Thoughts? -
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Re: Literary Criticism and Theory
Wed, May 30, 2007 - 6:15 AM... or else they'll just converge.
Because everything that rises must converge, no? -
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Re: Literary Criticism and Theory
Wed, May 30, 2007 - 1:29 PMI suppose so. I hadn't thought of that. -
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Re: Literary Criticism and Theory
Wed, May 30, 2007 - 4:16 PMApparently, Flannery will get you nowhere, JM.
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Re: Literary Criticism and Theory
Wed, May 30, 2007 - 4:28 PMIn addition to Dante, what about Proust?
Or Goethe's Faust, some of Shakespeare's plays, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Germaine Necker's "Corinne" as pivotal to the modern age,...? -
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Re: Literary Criticism and Theory
Thu, May 31, 2007 - 3:23 AMYep, I was going to suggest Milton earlier...but Dante is 'better'!
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Re: Literary Criticism and Theory
Wed, May 30, 2007 - 10:54 PM'Moby Dick'. You can get anything you want out of 'Moby Dick'. After all, everybody else has! -
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Re: Literary Criticism and Theory
Thu, May 31, 2007 - 3:25 AMOkay, I was going to suggest that too...but it is the obvious one. How about some modern stuff? I'm thinking maybe not Piers Anthony...
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