EMAIL<\/a> | SYLLABUS<\/a> | POLICIES<\/a> | QUESTIONS<\/a> | PRESENTATIONS<\/a> | JOURNALS<\/a> | PAPER<\/a> | FINAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Assigned: Cleanth Brooks. \u201cThe Heresy of Paraphrase\u201d from The Well Wrought Urn<\/em> (1217-29 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.<\/em> 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. On 1217-19, what happens to our understanding of a poem, according to Brooks, if we fail to emphasize \u201cthe primacy of the pattern\u201d (1218) or total structure instead of talking about poetry in terms of \u201cform\u201d and \u201ccontent\u201d? What sort of structure does Brooks appear to be invoking with regard to a given linguistic object, and what critical assumptions and habits is he thereby rejecting as unproductive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. On 1219-20, how does Brooks begin to analyze the perils of making \u201cstatements\u201d about a given poem in our quest to arrive at its meaning? What problems almost immediately start cropping up when we do this, and what result can we expect after we have tried as hard as we can to craft an \u201cadequate\u201d statement or proposition about the poem\u2019s meaning? (If you are presenting on this question, develop an example of your own: i.e. try to do what Brooks says we shouldn\u2019t, and see what results you get.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. On 1221-22, what further explanation does Brooks offer regarding the propensity of readers and critics to make statements about poems? What is the nature of the error made \u2013 i.e. the \u201cheresy\u201d committed — by those who insist on paraphrasing the actual words of a poem? What obvious and not-so-obvious ways of making this error does Brooks specify, and what unfortunate consequences should we expect if we commit \u201cthe heresy of paraphrase\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. On 1223-25, what three analogies drawn from other arts does Brooks offer for poetic structure? What does each analogy in succession add to his case against construing a poem in terms of logical or rational structure and in favor of a more dynamic way of understanding how poetry is structured and how we ought to interpret poetry? Which analogy does Brooks find most productive, and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. On 1225-26, how does Brooks situate and explain \u201cthe characteristic unity\u201d of a poem along the lines of a the drama analogy he has settled upon? How does a poem achieve the unity Brooks grants it? What does his example drawn from Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cIntimations of Immortality\u201d ode add to our understanding of what Brooks means by a poem\u2019s unity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. On 1226, how does Brooks deal with a possible challenge to his notion of a poem\u2019s unity and integrity? Why don\u2019t the \u201cmeanderings of a good poem\u201d have to be excused? How are the \u201capparent irrelevancies which metrical pattern and metaphor introduce\u201d to be factored in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. On 1226-28, how does Brooks develop his preference for the term \u201cirony\u201d as a means of capturing the way poetic language functions and allows the meaning of a poem to be apprehended? In discussing the significance of irony, what contrast does Brooks make between the language of science and the language of the literary arts, and how does this contrast advance his argument about the \u201cironic\u201d quality of poetry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. On 1228-29, how does Brooks finally characterize the \u201ctask\u201d of a good poet? What should happen to a poet\u2019s personal vision (emotions, ideas, aspirations, etc.) once they end up being expressed in a poem? Why have so many poets embraced \u201cambiguity and paradox rather than plain, discursive simplicity\u201d (1228) in their attempts to craft a unified work of literary art?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. General question: Brooks\u2019 theory of poetry and literature more generally is the first fully \u201cformalist\u201d one we have examined: that is, Brooks as the dean of the New Critics posits a literary object that is autonomous, one that has an integrity and separateness all its own and that isn\u2019t dependent on any outside frame of reference for its meaning. How do you assess this formalist approach to engaging with works of literature? What are its strengths and weaknesses? To what extent do you think \u201cformalism\u201d is still part of the intellectual environment in your own English or other humanities department in which literary texts are studied?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CLEANTH BROOKS QUESTIONS FOR E492 MODERN CRITICAL THEORYCSU FULLERTON, FALL 2015 Assigned: Cleanth Brooks. \u201cThe Heresy of Paraphrase\u201d from The Well Wrought Urn (1217-29 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8.). \u201cThe Heresy of Paraphrase\u201d 1. 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