CLAS 10200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mother Goddess, Jacques Lacan, Antithesis

• School: ND
• Department: Classics in Translation
• Course: CLAS 10200
• Professor: Mazurek Tadeusz

Document Summary

Critical theory is the lens we use to examine literature: structuralism. Compare and contrast underlying theories of thought. Vietnam war, war protestors (synthesis is the middle of the two) Structures are products of the viewer : mythemes (levi strauss) Hero"s journey to the underworld, cosmogonies, creation of mankind, fire theft. Characters=hero martyr, earth mother, sage, trickster, etc. Structuralists find these building blocks and put them together in slightly different ways each time, which leads to slightly different myths. Apollo=god of moderation, the arts, and prophecy: bk 1=ovid equates augustus with jupiter and apollo. New temple of apollo: palatine (ovid, next door, grand building, sibylline books.