ENGL 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Transcendentalism, Close Reading, Egalitarianism
19 Aug 2019
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Tuesday, february 14, 2017. Close reading - - > choose brief and focused passage. Attention at the level of the sentence. Focus on illuminating the significance of style and the particularities of style. Romantic audience - - > smaller and more intimate. Lends itself to a personal, conversational tone. Difference in carlyle - - > addressing a much larger audience. Signs of the times - - > pg. Man the producer of machines. Carlyle drawn to figures out of joint with their time. Best options for heroes or prophets. Brings together two forms of time. Circumstantial time and religious time. Hero as prophet - - > writing about mohammed, but also about himself. Drawn to mohammed as a radiant and charismatic figure. An ahistorical account of mohammed. Culturally admiring and culturally patronizing. Puritanical notions of oratory - - > didn"t want to become a public speaker. But his essays began as sermons or lectures.
