colege notes

My college notes – emphasis in Literature

Literature is a multi-modal discipline. A well constructed work has structural strength, creative burst, and a coherent flow.

The Moral Sense – In literature -

One’s pride must not let others to be threatened by, especially that of the individual which believes pride conquers.

One’s – 3rd person 1st would be “my” 2nd would be “your”
Present tense - verbs are must, let , be threatened

Tragedy – an imitation of an action (motive, motivation)
Has serious implications
There are things which stand outside or beyond the action
Possesses magnitude, greatness, largeness
The language is an exalted poetic verse; exalted meaning too heavy, too much, too rich too ripe, poetry is out of sync; transcends our everyday colloquial speech
Emotionally, catharsis; audience participation – which is to pity and fear the tragic hero
Pity – aroused by unmerited misfortune
Fear – aroused by misfortunes of ourselves
The tragic hero has: nobility, is pre-destined
To conclude, tragedy in literature is flawed pride on a grandiose scale, progressively moving in stamp misfortune emanating catharsis
The belief and realization that a human being must face overwhelming consequences is too great for the audience.
It is a gradual rise - contrary to comedy, a circular rise
The process of tragedy moves away from control to chaos
Exposition – the beginning of a play (exposing itself to the world.)
Conflict – Two parties in interaction
Crisis – A point of no return fates take over
Climax – the absolute height of catharsis
Turning point – the quick fall
Resolution – end denoument fin
The power of metaphor between men and women – Man must convert language into woman’s language. Example, home to man is the fort; the hold of the family; the protectorate; the hall – and to a woman, a house is her comfort, her security, her place to create; may it be weaving, cooking, rearranging.
For men, language is denotative(fixed yet rigid); for women, it is connotative (wobbly yet flexible) Men have difficulty understanding the language of a woman, so man must change.
The issue of power – In any love story, women are the saviors. She is on top; sexually and socially. The issue of power of man is violence; distressing brutality. This is male power. The true source of power is persuasion. There is no internal ego towards women. Therefore, the weaker of the two is the male. Violence is demoralizing; deceiving attraction; corrupt influence; active ignorance – Love is absolute moral sense; it is truth and beauty; natural attraction.
Humanism –celebrates the power and spirit of the human being. It is a human invention. A natural attraction; truth; beauty; self healing; illuminating; controversial and at times cutting edge; ahead it time; earth shattering; boundless; creatively infinite; Love.
It spread mainstream in the 17th Century, during the time of discovery.
The force opposed is Fundamentalism; it is theocratic; secular, governing. An obstacle intended to tame the human being; to bound; impregnate active ignorance by way of vitriolic rhetoric; ambiguous verse, connotatively wobbly, emotionally charged.
The break – opposing forces within the human being. Anne Bradsreet; a Puritan that celebrated human achievement; a perplexity; contradiction; paradoxical pandemonium; through it, something’s breaks; either an explosion or implosion.
Implosive self determiner – tamed, given up, accepting fate; convinced into
Explosive self determiner – freedom, true righteousness, accepting new fate, realized into
The Orator – the transcendentalist. Teacher of self-relevance. Didactic; influential; respected; source of primary acquisition; teacher-student instruction.

POETRY - The silence of tragedy; a primary focus on language. Speaks directly. Words can fail. Poetry attempts to rebuke the charge that words in fact fail; Thus, Poetry steam-cleans, re-suits, reinforces, reinvents, responds, recalculates, redefines, reimburses, redirects, revamps, recollects, repudiates, reorganizes, reinstates, replenishes, restores, reduces, and even recommends a thought to a thought; From one thinkers thought to another.
Thinkthought –
Post Modern Literary Theory states that “words” have trace value. Absent in language cannot be traced. A gap in knowledge; disconnect; reinventing with absence; Therefore, since words are trace; to signify a word it must be de-constructed then reconstructed to its real significant value.
What is signified from a word has no real value. Rhetorical legislation. The absolute significance to any significant object is God transcended.
God transcended in the physical is “Happiness.” This is achieved when is close to the attractive beauty in truth; the intrinsic moral signifier; contradiction to the linguist; a sense of absence of meaning. A tinge naïve yet may have misconstruing forms, post literary theory suggest to begin from the start; the seed; thus, the image, itself, in pure form. Then begin to reconstruct into the true essence of significance.
Examples can be seen in political climates; the connotative deception and misconstruing tones; from dire to urgent to panic to apathy to charm or to plain numbness, boredom, the active ignorance scale should be calibrated and reexamined to fully understand post literary theory. Examples – Surrealism, Dadaism, Man Ray, Theatre of the absurd.