Day  2: Critical Reading and Intro to Modes
 

• marginalia (EKS) -- stuff written in the margins of books, notes.
• elegiac (Frye) ---
• spoudias (Aristotle/Frye)
• phaulos (Aritotle/ Frye)
• Myth/ mythos
• Romance
• Marchen --
• Mimetic
• High and Low Mimetic
• Irony
• Naive vs. Sentimental literature
• Tragic (Frye ) -- Having a plot that moves towards the separation of the main character from society (death being the ultimate separation)
• Comic (Frye) -- having a plot that moves towards the integration of the main character with society
• epistemology (EKS) -- the study of how we know.  What is reality?  Is it objective or subjective?  Is truth perceptible through the senses? Through divine revelation?
• taxonomy (EKS) -- a system of classification whereby all the members of a particular group  are organized according to (usually) evolutionary characteristics
• ethos (Aristotle/ Frye) --  Greek for "character"
• Gliederung (EKS) -- German word for skeleton, anatomy, or outline 

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• hubris-- (Aristotle) pride, specifically challenging the gods, arrogance or insolence ( see Oxford)
• pathetic fallacy  (Frye)-- a natural phenomenon is seen to echo human feelings and emotion ( see Oxford)
• archetype-- greek word for "old form", repeated symbols, plots, etc. ( See Oxford)
• alazon (Frye) -- imposter, character who believes they are better than they actually are
• eiron (Frye) -- character who believes they are worse than they actually are
• hamartia (Aristotle)-- flaw, error, or mistep which leads to protagonist's fall
• encyclopedic (Frye) -- literarry forms which emphasize theme rather than plot and wihch try to represent the whole of a community's knowledge
• episodic (Frye) -- literary forms which emphasize theme rather than plot and respresent the individual speaker's mind or opinions. 

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• reversal or peripetia (Aristotle) -- ( See Oxford)
• recognition or anagnorisis (Aristotle) -- ( See Oxford)
• recognition by marks or tokens (a birthmark, amulet etc.)
• deus ex machina -- inartistic, obviously maniplated resolution
• recognition through memory
• recognition through reasoning -- it is figured out
• simple and complex plots
• pity and fear
• pathos or suffering
• spectacle
• catharsis --
• probability
• in media res
• poetic justice

• Exposition
• Parode
• Complication
• Agon

• alazon (Frye 172)
• eiron (Frye (172-4)
• senex iratus
• miles gloriosus
• dolosus servus (Frye 173) a.k.a. trickster, vice
• buffoon (Frye 175)
• agroikos (frye 175-6)
• "epiphany of law" (Frye 208)
• lex talionis -- law of revenge (Frye 208)
• nemesis (Frye 209) --
• proairesis (Frye 212): a difficult choice
• quantum mutatus ab illo: (Frye 212)  How changed from what he was. How greatly changed from that Hector who came back arrayed in the armour of Achilles!  Virgil: The Aeneid: Book 2, Line 274
• Augenblick (Frye 213)  -- German for blink of an eye
• cognitio (Frye 214) -' Latin for aquisition of knowledge
• Dionysus vs Apollo (Frye 214-5)
• tragic eiron (Frye 216)
• tragic alazon (Frye 217)
• bomolochus or buffoon (Frye 217) -- type of character whose function is to intensify the mood of a piece.  In comedy, the buffoons make people laugh, increase the mood of gaity or celebration; in tragedy the buffoon is instead the supplient whose suffering increase the mood of helplessness and loss.
• Agroikos or churl (Frye 172, 175-6) -- type of character whose function is to go against the mood of a piece.  In comedy the churl refuses to share festivity; in a tragedy it is the critic of the tragic action



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Day 7: Paper Writing I
• Attribution
• Stage Direction
• Modern Language Association

 

• Total Theater: (environmental theater) theater tecnique that blurrs the lines between audience and characters, they becoome indistinguishable, combines acting spaces
• Super Objective: (spine of character) the ultimate desire, goal, or objective, of the character, driving force throughout play
• Objective: more minor, moment to moment tasks or goals that lead to the super objective
• Backstory: history behind the characters and events, filled in simultaneously as the play goes foward
• Throughline: a character's personal and unique journey through a play
• Crosses: when characters and their objective meet, sometimes works metaphorically

• trompe l'oeil -- French for "trick the eye": a painting that convinces the observer that it is three-dimensional
• archetype -- "the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies...a perfect example" (MW11th)
• anagogic: "interpretation of a word, passage, or text (as of Scripture or poetry) that finds beyond the literal, allegorical, and moral senses a fourth and ultimate spiritual or mystical sense" (MW11th).
• typology - system of 4-fold interpretation of the New Testament
• literal
• allegorical (relating to Old Testament or the Church)
• tropological (moral: relating to the life of the indiviudal Christian)
• anagogical (relating to the end of things-- parallels to Revelations)
• apocalyptic imagery -- imagery surrounding heaven
• Demonic imagery -- imagery of hell
• pharmakos (Greek)-- scapegoat or sacrificial victim; the one who is bears the burden of the community's sin and is cast out so the community can remain whole.  Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"

• liminal:  in between place/ transitional zone MW11: "Etymology: Latin limin-, limen threshold: of or relating to a sensory threshold; barely perceptible"
• crepuscular-- of or relating to twlight
• sparagmos (Greek):  ritual dismemberment, death, disfiguration  (literally "tering apart, as Dionysius is torn apart in the Bacchae)
• The Hanged Man: Tarot image of rebirth/ resurection.  The Tarot Card
• apotheosis:  becoming a god. MW 11: "elevation to divine status : DEIFICATION; the perfect example : QUINTESSENCE <this is the literary apotheosis of the shaggy dog story -- Thomas Sutcliffe>"  Dickey describes napalm as "the apotheosis of gelatin" in his poem "The Firebombing"
• Separation/ Initiation/ Return -- three stages of the monomyth according to Joseph Campbell

• monomyth--
• heroine/ female hero

Day 24: Literary Research

• Definitive Text
• Primary (descriptive) bibliography
• annotated secondary biblio
• DLB
• Twayne Book
• Norton Critical Edition