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Leda and the Swan
Leonardo da Vinci's painting of Leda and the Swan
Mae West
"Why don't you come on up and see me sometime.. when I've got nothin' on but the radio."
Commonplace of Literature Quotes
"A sonnet might look dinky, but it was somehow big enough to accommodate love, war, death, and O. J. Simpson." Anne Fadiman Ex Libris pg 33
"To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause." Kim Fadiman Ex Libris pg 39
"When you read silently; only the writer performs. When you read aloud, the performance is collaborative. One partner provides the words, the other the rhythm." Anne Fadiman Ex Libris pg 133
"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nother longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myseft Pip, and came to be called Pip." Pip Great Expectations pg 1
"And that communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations." Mr. Jaggers Great Expectations pg 107
"Halloa! Here's a church! [...] Let's go in! [...] Halloa! Here's a couple of pair of gloves! Let's put 'em on! [...] Halloa! Miss Skiffins! Let's have a wedding!" Wemmick Great Expectations pg 355
“'We have all lost our possessions and many of us our home,’ he said. ’But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.’” Mr. Watts Mister Pip pg 123
"People sometimes as me ‘Why Dickens?’ which I always take to be a gentle rebuke. I point to the one book that supplied me with another world at a time when it was desperately needed. It gave me a friend in Pip. It taught me you can slip under the skin of another just as easily as your own, even when that skin is white and belongs to a boy alive in Dickens’ England. Now, if that isn’t an act of magic I don’t know what is." Matilda Mister Pip pg 231
"I only know the man who took us kids by the hand and taught us how to reimagine the world, and to see the possibility of change, to welcome it into our lives. […] We needed a magician to conjure up other worlds, and Mr. Watts had become that magician.” Matilda Mister Pip pg 245
Vocab
Bildungsroman (n) a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist
Eviscerate (v) to remove the entrails from; disembowel
Prig (n) a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity
Salutary (adj) promoting or conducive to some beneficial purpose; wholesome
Synchronicity (n) coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, simultaneous
Accoucheur (n) male midwife
Biled ???
Mangle (n) ???
Ablution (n) the watching of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite)
Epiphany (n) an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure
Mise en abyme (french) placement at the center of an escutcheon of a smaller copy of the same escutcheon: containment of an entity within another identical entity: image of an image
Poeisis (greek) production: formation
Prosody (n) the study of versification; especially: the systematic study of metrical structure
Parodox (n) a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
Peripeteia (n) a sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work
Catharsis (n) purification or purgation of the emotions (as pity and fear) primarily through art
Sparagmos (v) the rendering or tearing of live flesh
Mirth (n) gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter
Bawdy (adj) obscene, lewd
Theodicy (n) defense of God's goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil
Ate (n) a Greek goddess personifying foolhardy and ruinous impulse
Foundling (n) an infant found after its unknown parents have abandoned it
Dialect (n) a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammer, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language
Repetition (n) the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated
Artificer (n) a skilled or artistic worker or craftsman; one that makes or contrives
Nostos (greek) home
Volta (n) twist or turn in a sonnet
Comedy (n) a drama of light and amusing character and typically with a happy ending
Tragedy (n) a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or terror
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- I'm going into my second year of college and I couldn't be more excited! I love to read...but am not that great at writing! This blog is for my English 123 Intro to Literature class...enjoy!
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