Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Call for Practice Questions
I know it's a bit early (my exam is not until April 28), but I'm already beginning to fret. To help me overcome my fears, would anyone reading this blog throw a few exam-style questions at me? Jody already got the ball rolling on my Plato post. For you Renaissance folks who don't want to deal with pre-Tudor stuff, I've been reading Old Arcadia, metaphysical poetry, Milton, Faerie Queene, and (tomorrow) Bacon. The questions don't have to be about wonder--any question will do. I'm also grappling with how allegory works: what it is, why it is, how it fits in with wonder... C'mon, it'll just take a minute, and you have the opportunity to make me squirm!!!
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In your February 19 blog, you discuss a number of conflicting theories of the sublime from Longinus onward. I'm curious about a specific example from Longinus: his quotation and analysis of Sappho's famous "phainetai moi" ("he seems to me") poem in chapter X (http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/longinus/desub003.htm#x1). This analysis clearly illustrates Longinus's definition of the sublime as "not persuasion but transport," but I'm wondering what some of the later writers might make of this passage--would their different takes on the sublime result in different readings of Sappho's poem? Or are they all just talking about the same thing in different ways?
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