February 5, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Relating to CC202′s study of Walt Whitman’s work, here is an extract of the article by Claire Kelley on the poet’s whereabouts while he was writing in 1855: “Whitman-iacs” like NYU Professor Karen Karbiener have paid their respects to the ghost of Walt Whitman by visiting the unassuming white house that stands one story taller than [...]
January 31, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Some spring semesters, CC202 studies the works of John Keats. Here is an interesting untitled fragment the Romantic poet scribbled in a margin: This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights [...]
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Also posted in Academics, Art, Quotes
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Tagged dark, discussion, gloomy, hand, interesting, John Keats, ominous, poem, poet, poetry, tomb
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January 28, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Core classes extensively explore poetry. Here is an essay on the topic of memorizing poetry – whether we should do it, and if so, why and how? An excerpt: Anyone equipped with a smartphone—many of my friends would never step outdoors without one—commands a range of poetry that beggars anything the brain can store. Let’s [...]
January 25, 2013 at 4:35 pm
The class of CC202 delves into Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Here the Core presents an article looks at that work from another perspective- politics. Here is an excerpt: The Victorians fostered the idea of Austen as the retiring spinster who confined her novels to the small canvas of village life. In more recent times she [...]
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Tagged article, CC202, context, history, interesting, Jane Austen, militia, novel, politics, poverty, prejudice, pride, romantic
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January 23, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Relating to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which is studied this semester by CC 202, here is today’s analect: I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if [...]
January 17, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Language and Other Abstract Objects was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 1981. It discusses the ideas of Plato studied in CC101. Internalization and externalization also explain why, for Plato, poetry corrupts our psyches. Given our psychology, there are two features of poetry which make it an especially potent drug. First, the music and rhythms [...]
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Tagged boundary, CC101, expression, form, imagination, imitation, inside, outside, perform, Plato, poetry
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January 17, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Professor Knust held a lecture in September of 2011, of which the Core is belatedly releasing the concluding minutes. While it related to The Book of Genesis, which is studied in CC101, the Core feels that the questions raised here are important, and relevant to many other works. In the end, I’m not sure what [...]
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Tagged ancestors, creation, destruction, explanation, Genesis, God, Knust, lecture, question, reason, understand, why?
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January 17, 2013 at 3:48 pm
These are drawings by 19th century French artist Paul Gustave Doré, made for Paradise Lost. The first depicts Lucifer trying to hold on to Heaven before he is sent down to hell for inciting a war in the between the angels invariably causing the fall of man. The second shows Lucifer being cast out [...]
