ENG 2133 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Rape, Jesus, God
12 Oct 2018
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ENG 2133
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
ENG2133- Lecture 1- May 2, 2018
Agenda for today’s class
• Introduction
• Ovid Metamorphoses - Creation, structure + differentiation
• - desire +transformation
• - Apollo +Daphne, Pan + Syrinx, Joule + lo
• Sublimation, work + memorialisation
• The work of desire
• Rape, sex, violence
Blow your mind ( Extra reading/songs etc of personal interest, not to be tested on etc.)
• Keats ode o a Greia Ula usure of spellig
• Yeats “ailig to Byrotiu
Back on track
• Profs expertise is in Canadian literature thus much of the titles studied in this course are
Canadian works (bias)
• This is not a psych class- it is about how these authors have used madness and desire in works to
express art
• What does art mean
• Course about experience, how we feel, how we fell in our own skin, how we feel about the
world
• Nothing more intimate than going crazy
• Intensely personal but also not all at the same time
• More of an idea course than a factual historical one
• More similarly related to a philosophy class
• Get used to feeling confused- best way to do well in this class is to try these ideas on
• Big ideas- take chances
• Many books we will look at are pushing the limits
• Transformation is KEY theme of this course
• Characters we will see are always changing
• For this class we are welcome to use the 1st person and give opinions! Its encouraged actually,
however, make sure you have valid arguments
• Generally you need to keep in mind that everything we read is hypothetical- try and imagine
these characters and the situations, the language etc
• Madness/desire appear in literature as limited- often defined by a break down in language
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• How do you know my love is your love?- can never fully explain your feelings to someone else-
they will never fully understand the same
• Midlife crisis desire- an intense desire- by definition it is lawless
• It’s the loe you at ut the loe that ill destroy you
• Madess is the reakdo of I, it is hat happes he you lose your I
• Muh of the authors hae this idea of you are ot ad eough – that one needs to go further-
test the limits and push harder
• Break down leads to break through
• To criticise a text is to destroy it
• NOTE- Questions will be given from time to time to guide your readings and thoughts, these
questions are more than likely to appear on exams ***
• Midterm- One essay (about 1.5 hrs long to write however you have the full 3 hours- it is not
hard- it’s really just testig if you hae kept up ith your readigs
• Will you risk your life for ultimate pleasure? Know something is bad for you but do it anyways?
Could you give it up?
• Office hours- about an hour after each class ( Mon/Wed)
Break (10mins)
Evaluation
• Midterm (25%)
• Term paper (40%)
• Final (35%)
Moig o to Oid’s
• Main theme of transformation and desire
• Origin of art- violence is at the heart- rape- women being put down- succumb to men
• Ovid is drawing attention to rape etc. he is not flower coating it
• He is a roman writer who wrote in Latin
• Myths are pagan however you will see clear Christian gloss as well
• God creates the world- humans emerge- humans become corrupted- Ju-Piter creates flood to
clean the world- world then needs to rebuild
• I Oid’s orks the orld as already there, less aout reatio ad rather ore of
organization of what was already there
• Order on chaos
• Repurpose what was already there- eerythig as ofused eleets did’t ko hat to do
or where to go etc)
• Heaven was separated from earth, water from land and so on
• Things find liberation by finding their right place
• Each in its right place- harmony occurs
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