ENGL 1F95 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Sonnet, Poetry, Petrarchan Sonnet
12 Oct 2018
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ENGL 1F95
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
What%is%the%study%of%Literature?%%
‐In%the%5th%century,%medieval%writer%Martianus%Capella%wrote%the%allegory:%“De%nuptiis%Phil
seven%pillars%of%learning:%grammar,%dialectic%(argumentative%speech),%rhetoric%(persuasive%
musical%harmony.
Mercurii:%intellectual%pursuit/productive%learning
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Nuptiis:%marriage%%
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Philology:%Love%of%letters%%
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Translates%to:%Marriage%of%the%love%of%letters%and%worthy%intellectual%pursuit
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What%do%people%need%learn?%Language%based%fields%of%study
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What%is%the%study%of%English%Literature?
‐In%his%essay,%“The%Rise%of%English”%Terry%Eagleton%discusses%how%the%formal%study%of%Englis
Mechanics’%Institutes%as%“the%poor%man’s%Classics.”%%
19th%century%%
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‐1930,%critic%named%F.R%Leavis%advocated%the%study%of%English%as%a%serious%university%subjec
Argued%that%reading%literature%made%one%a%worthy%member%of%a%worthy%society%%
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Know%how%to%be%a%good%English%citizen%%
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‐1950s%and%1960s,%practitioners%of%a%form%of%literary%criticism,%called%New%Criticism,%sought%
Form%of%literature,%reading%for%form%%
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Study%of%Literature%Chapter%in%Anthology%%
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‐Since%classical%periods%(esp.%During%heyday%of%New%Crit%and%other%formalist%approaches)%cr
fixed%sets%of%principles%(genre,%mode,%figurative%devices)%that%help%with%the%work%of%identif
‐Since%the%late%1960s%and%1970s,%critics%of%literature%have%become%increasingly%suspicious%o
universal%or%transhistorical,%and%have%rather%focused%on%the%way%texts%are%produced%in%vari
‐Most%contemporary%theoretical%approaches%to%lit%still%depend%on%traditional%analytical%read
literary%devices%and%literary%history%%
‐All%texts%are%cultural%or%conceptual%documents%that%reflect%the%way%ideas%are%circulate%and
Lecture'1:'Introduction'to'literature'
Monday,%December%11,%2017
3:12%PM
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%Philologiae%et%Mercurii,%in%which%he%describes%the%
asive%speech),%geometry,%arithmetic,%astronomy,%and%
nglish%lit%began,%not%in%the%universities,%but%in%the%
bject
ught%to%focus%solely%on%the%literary%work%itself
s)%critics%of%literature%have%attempted%to%generate%
ntifying%and%analyzing%works%of%literature%%
us%of%the%idea%that%such%sets%of%principles%are%
%various%contexts.%%
al%reading%methods%and%a%sophisticated%knowledge%of%
%and%affirmed%in%particular%times%and%spaces%%
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