Introduction to Literature July 7, 2008
Found Poetry – find poetry in unlikely source
Alliteration – the repetition of the initial word
EXAMPLE: Peter piper picked…
Coincidence – 6 degrees of separation; random happening that occurs to actually have some relation to each other.
-Happen all the time without many people knowing it; 1:3 chances
-Possibly not random, but actually “meant to be”
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-Coincidences in Great Expectations and what links everyone in the classroom
Email blog to teacher!
Very earliest memory involving pain
SALUTARY – promoting or conducive to some beneficial purpose; wholesome.
-beneficial aspect
Create a common place sight on blog!
COMMON PLACE READER – someone who reads for pleasure
-try to put quotes in blog
MEMORABLE – try to put memorable passages into blog
“There are no accidents”
-James Joyce
-coincidences happen all the time; miracles are events that DO NOT happen often
SYNCHRONICITY - Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality.
-everything happens for a reason but what are those reasons?
FRAME – stories within stories, best exemplified by a box
EVISCERATE – take what is inside out (the guts)
We are all in the process of metamorphosis
-when frame stories are handled well, it is not a tangent but a story within a story
Arabian Nights
-Sherry tells frame stories in order to keep the story going and stay alive.
“Shaggy Dog” Story
-story that lasts a long time and reaches no conclusive moral idea; pointless; causes the point of the story to not matter, but to the experience of the story.
“ANYTHING WORTH LEARNING IS BESIDE THE POINT”
-The point of the journey is the journey -John Barth
-There are 2 alternate endings to Great Expectations
BIL DUNGSROMAN – a coming-of-age story; Great Expectations is a bil dungsroman
PRIG - a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, esp. in a self-righteous or irritating manner
-death means no more stories; you live and you tell; you live to tell stories
“The Magus” great book with G.E. in introduction
Create an imagination that there is nothing that is boring.
ASSIGNMENT
-find a poem from unsuspecting place
PANDER – from Shakespeare character Panderous; sexually elicit to something
GENRE - a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like
ARCHETYPE - the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
-most of us are always in a story
Great Expectations Characters
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Pip Pumplechook
Convict (Magwitch) Wopsle
Joe Gargery
Miss Havisham
Estella
Herbert
Compeyson
Jaeggers
Wemmick
Molly
Biddy
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