After three hours of lecture and an additional hour of discussion, I still can't answer that question.
ENGLISH 100- Week 1
Techné
• art, graft, skill
• technology
• code for which most translation is available
Theoria
• a looking at, viewing, beholding
Theorema
• a sight, a show, a spectacle
• origin of theater, theory, etc.
Literary Theory
• uses models of other sciences to identify, understand, analyze its own object
• the proper object of theory is its own failure
• under a double comparative that says
o face language or everything you say about it will be chatter/gossip
o however much you try to face language, you’ll never be linguistic enough- whatever you say will be a flight from language
Trivium
• grammar
• logic
• rhetoric
Quadrivium
• arithmetic
• geometry
• astronomy
• music
Poetics (formalisms)
• based on grammatical models of language
• interested in framework/structure of text
• general laws and principles behind particular literary phenomenon
• its object is literary discourse
• ex: Aristotle’s Poetics
• problem is how you deal w/ meaning
o attempts to “grammartize” meaning
...sometimes I wish my English professors would just lecture in ENGLISH.
