ENG 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cronus, Rhetorical Question, Literary Theory
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Reading questions: editors" introduction to plato and republic, book ii. You do not have to turn them in to me on thursday. You are, however, responsible for being able to answer these questions; if you are not able (which is okay, initially), you should at least mark/identify the moment in the text to which the question corresponds. In other words, you should be able intelligently to say that and what you don"t understand. These questions will guide much of our class discussion. This strategy, still much alive in education and elsewhere, is more commonly called the socratic method. : the realm of forms (good, ideas) is not accessible through the senses, but instead through what? (43) In plato"s phaedrus, socrates rejects writing because it substitutes lifeless signs for what? (44) 9: plato is the progenitor of didactic criticism & theory, which is grounded in what basic assumption about literature? (page 44)
