Whitney's English 123 Blog: Sidenote...

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Sidenote...

I just wanted to mention something on a sidenote before I write my actual blog in the morning. I was in Great Falls this weekend visiting a friend and I got home on Sunday evening to find The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch on the counter! I know it's another coincidence, but I thought it was worth mentioning! I'll write another more informative blog in the morning!

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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