This exercise gets you away from all the emphasis on “rule learning” and the expectation that rules alone will enable you to produce valuable work.
I do find this very helpful in the long run. By trying to adapt the example into our own, we can see where we have failed and how we can improve overall with good constructive criticism.
When citing, do not assume your readers understand the whole framework of the text. Give your reader an overview before proceeding.
To me, this is one of my weaker aspects when citing sources, I will very often write my citations and note take where and when, however when I go into detail it is very weak overall. I didn't have a problem with it at the time, but Ill take this as a sign to improve.
Writer’s block
After reading the materials again, I do know what I think is troubling my writers block. I can list what I have but one of the primary ones are just Busyness, depression/anxiety, and stuck in middle. A lot of this is I do not have the time to properly break down my mental space and heal, due to business and frustration overall. It is a struggle but I will get there eventually out of college.
All writers want inspiration to strike them so hard that writing feels like sliding down a hill.
There is nothing better than this. When you know what to write, and everything flows out? It is one of the most incredible experiences in the world. Taking the time to break down writers block and overcome it can feel amazing.
For instance, if you are wondering whether an author had drawn ideas from another author, you can logically reject the idea if the second author’s work was published after the first author’s work.
To clarify: It is never fully about asking a question, and upon seeing an answer to cross it out. It is about taking a question and trying to reform, adjust, and present the question again with the idea of creating a new thought process.
The advertisers probably want us to reason that the car is tough since we associate football with toughness.
We also see this a lot with other kinds of branding tactics. Wendy's Twitter has the "Sassy Wendy's" girl to attract media and brand attention. Another great example is how iHop briefly branded itself as iHob to try and bring more attention to the fact it had a lunch menu.
This also gets into more problematic territory with more risqué commercials. One of the prominent ones I remember is an AXE body wash commercial.
If we conclude that the moon is made of cheese (like a piece of Swiss cheese) we have made an inference, but for science it is not an allowable one; in poetry, the inference that the moon is made of cheese is just fine. We can thus think of different areas of knowledge as having different rules for inferences, just as different games have different rules of play.
Hopefully another example to help.
Scientific Reasoning: In Pirates of the Caribbean, scientifically it is possible for a boat to be converted into a makeshift submarine for Jack and Will to use, however it would not last long enough to get to the ship.
Poetic Reasoning: In Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack and Will use a boat to travel underwater because Jack is a genius pirate and this is how we see his intelligence.
It leads into the suspension of disbelief, it shouldn't be possible but it is just stretching the truth enough that it works.
Is your question too broad? For instance, if it covers all literature of all time from all places, it is probably too broad. (If so, keep refining your question)
I'm not certain, but this might be a situation I am in. If I am trying to ensure something is not as broad as I intend. I do want to ask questions and comparisons and how they connect, it just becomes "Does this become to big?"
If a work of misinformation or disinformation gets published, distributed, and archived, we count on other scholars to identify it and demand a retraction or correction.
I will say, by having a much larger spreading of documents, research journals, and more; we would have a much further educated group, as well as being able to refer and understand the difference between opinions and more factual documents.
Wrong and deceptive information is rampant on public forums and on poor quality media platforms
My only great concern comes from further misinformation. I will not argue, there is a lot online forums dedicated to misinformation. However I would be wary about those posing or stating to be "Higher Educated" individuals who use this phrase as a shroud to further spread misinformation.
C) all of the above.
I will agree on this, I have a small library in my bedroom dedicated to whatever works of writing I need at the time. No matter what. Which is why I have some things tabbed on my computer; one of my most critical and helpful tools has been "Citation Machine" as it acts as a builder for MLA, APA, or Chicago, while also trying to help filter information based on the information given. https://www.citationmachine.net/
You can save time by searching for rac* which will retrieve results for race, racism, racialized, racial, and raced.
This is incredible overall for the sake of speeding up research and more, but I do have an overall question, does apply to all online databases? Or only specific library databases?
Keep an index of your readings so you can review them and find key passages later.
I would agree, not to mention I would also add the numbering of when you found it. When I do my citations, I will also log which citation I used first; this makes sure that I can properly register them on my Work's Cited Page. Not to mention a website that has saved my life endlessly. "https://www.citationmachine.net/"
The framing ignores the very real work it takes to become a musician, and it denies that the product – jazz – has any value other than fun.
I fully disagree with this ideologies.
Firstly, I want to go over again the discussion of Black Americans, especially during the 1950's when the movement for Black equality was growing and marches were taking place and more.
At this time, for struggling individuals, it is not the sake of the fact that how music is for no one, or ignoring the effort. The argument is about sustainability, the framing that the father is making is not how there is no work into performing music, it is the question of how is one going to survive making music?
Sonny struggled with his life, living, and substance abuse which would lead to his arrest. We do not know the situations behind it, only that Sonny had a problem. We can know he had some money, but the questions that arise are, is in the same situation as the Narrator? What is leading him down this?
There is also the real concern of racial issues, do we know if Sonny really had a problem? Or was this made up by police leading to his arrest? Was Sonny doing better than the narrator, causing the latter to be jealous? We don't know.
What is beyond the door?
In the story, the parable references the man under arrest.
What I feel the contrast between this and the "Seeds" parable of Jesus, has to do with the person.
Jesus takes the time to use the parable to express people and history, whereas with this, I feel the parable is directly targeted at the protagonist.
The overall message, is that someone is trying to pass through the gate, and understand why and plea his case. However he is too scared of the gatekeeper and waits and waits and asks "...so how does it happen that for all these many years no one but myself has ever begged for admittance?”
The purpose is that, the Law is just and supreme. However for one to apply the law, they must not be afraid to push forward and discuss things. Facing terrifying encounters with the "Guardians" but push on all the same.
Jesus compares something difficult to understand (how to spread wisdom) to something well-understood (that plants grow from seeds). The complicating factor in Jesus’ parable is that he presents different kinds of people with different kinds of souls to explain why wisdom grows in some but not in others.
It is important to note that this is not just Jesus expressing wisdom, but also the casting of the Kingdom of Heaven. This does not just apply to the wisdom bestowed in his teachings, as well as the written word of God, but also expresses two other things.
Doesn’t he realize
So firstly, this is for the poem. This is my interpretation of the poem itself.
I will say that this individual, is feeling hurt. Not hurt about the fact of getting picked over, but the feeling that the narrator feels that the man treats this like a game. That "He" is treating as if the narrator will be there forever, with the real possibility the narrator will be living based on "His" life.
The narrator's argument is that "I am not someone to be left, or ever present" I believe this is the narrators way to try and make the decision to move on for their own sake of mind.
A key form of reading in literary studies is interrogatory, which means asking questions of the text as you read.
When I consider this, I structure the strategies in a different way. I think about what I need to write, or need to find. Leading to Skimming, I then go into my Search, Critical, Revision, and Mastery.
Other times, I go into Exploratory, then Critical, revision, and Mastery.
The primary idea is that there isn't really a straight method, it is all dependent on the information required, as well as the length of the study.
I will not lie, there are times I do not need to read an entire book, and skimming and searching the index tends to help. However it is important to revise and go back early in the work so that way we do not incorrectly quote something or twist the meaning for ourselves.
For the most part, we can’t assume that there are “one size fits all” methodologies that cross all theories. The particular methodologies you choose will be related to a theory, and you should choose methodologies that are most relevant to your chosen literary work and your research question.
In using different methodologies, there is not any wrong answer yes. I also do believe there are similar methodologies in different theories and we can still apply accordingly.
To identify appropriate methodologies, you will need to research your chosen theory and gather the methodologies associated with it
Do methodologies go hand in hand with theories? Or are they their own separate forms? This does lead into a concern involving how we will act when analyzing these theories. I don't believe I am going to use a CRT or Marxist Methodology, when writing my report, and I do wish we have other examples.
There is one correct interpretation of a literary text Interpretation is less important than identifying literary techniques and their effects
I truly do admire the differences between these styles. What I also want to point out is how in American Formalism, it was made in response to poetry, primarily inspired by Walt Whitman and other poetry works at the time. A heavy focus on trying tio break down the works themselves.
In comparison, Russian Formalism had its foundation primarily on the scholars and literary critics of their time. I would also add that the rough part about this, was that the Russian style was not fully able to create a consensus with all users.
hermeneutics
When I was looking into this, it is primarily of taking an analysis for interpreting. One of the most prominent being the analysis of the Bible. It does bring interesting thoughts of how we had built the use of interpretation in writings. How has that affected us overall?
Shittard, Squirtard, Crackard, Turdous, Thy bung Hath flung Some dung On us: Filthard, Cackard, Stinkard, St. Antony’s fire seize on thy toane (bone?), If thy Dirty Dounby Thou do not wipe, ere thou be gone.
I know that this seems like a bunch of swearing, and in this involvement we are learning about what exactly Gargantua is doing and referring to. However there is the use of words being rhymed and just flagrant vulgarity. What I found is a close similarity to the use of words done by William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, "The Bard" was well known for the countless plays, but also the numerous words he ended up creating. Philip Gove says, "It would be fairly easy to determine how much of Shakespeare's language is still with us today but a systematic comparison of all his language and ours would take years. It would not take more than a few days, however, to draw up a long list of words he is recorded as having used first,...assassination...compunctious...countless...hunchbacked...denote...plumpy...reword...spiritlesss...vacancy...ill-got...wear one's heart on one's sleeve..." (Shakespeare's Language in Today's Dictionary, 130-131).
I feel that, regardless of the vulgarity being written, these words still will be integrated into the society of that time, and even now.
Grove, Philip B. “Shakespeare's Language in Today's Dictionary.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 7, no. 2, 1965, pp. 127–136., https://doi.org/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40753851.
“That she may not lose the memory of this villain I cause her to be served with his skull, (2) in place of a cup, when she is eating and drinking at table, and this always in my presence, so that she may behold, alive, him whom her guilt has made her mortal enemy, and dead, through love of her, him whose love she did prefer to mine. And in this wise, at dinner and at supper, she sees the two things that must be most displeasing to her, to wit, her living enemy, and her dead lover; and all this through her own great sinfulness.
What I want to bring up is that this isn't the first myth involving a skull turned into a cup. It was told by King Niðhad, who had captured a famous smith, Völund, and cut his knee tendons to keep him forging materials. However, King Niðhad sons privately came to his smithy, and Völund proceeded to kill them both, hiding their bodies and turning their skulls into goblets.
As Leah Otis wrote, "It is a commonplace that German laws allowed a husband to kill an adulterous wife caught in flagrante delicto...the laws that do affirm that the murderous husband should suffer no penalty often specify that he must have killed both the wife and her lover." (Dealing with Adultery, 350).
With a heavy focus on how the woman is to blame for adultery, and the men are given the higher position. While these stories are pointing out issues within culture and more, I feel that this story encapsulates it very well.
Otis-Cour, Leah. “‘De Jure Novo’: Dealing with Adultery in the Fifteenth-Century Toulousain.” Speculum, vol. 84, no. 2, 2009, pp. 347–392., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0038713400018078.
My Guide and I, our journey to pursue To the bright world, upon this road concealed Made entrance, and no thought of resting knew. He first, I second, still ascending held Our way until the fair celestial train Was through an opening round to me revealed: And, issuing thence, we saw the stars again.
Throughout this journey, we watch how Dante interacts with the world that is the Inferno and the nine circles in Hell. His guide, Virgil, leading him through until the pair finally make it to the next destination, Purgatory. Dante is often compared to the role of a Christian belief. The understanding that the wage of sin is death, and the punishment. But also the possibility of redemption in the end, as Peter Brand writes, "For Dante, as indeed for any Christian believer, death is not the end of life, but the beginning of a new immortal life in which every individual soul (immediately in Hell and Paradise, and at the end of purgation in Purgatory) achieves its ultimate reality, its definitive state of being. It is this ultimate and unchanging reality, in which all souls are fixed forever in the contemporaneity of eternity, that Dante claims to have visited and to be describing." (Brand 59).
With this revelation, we watch as Dante ascends out of his Inferno and soon through Purgatory and then up to his Paradise.
Brand, C. P., and Lino Pertile. The Cambridge History of Italian Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
And the knight answered, “Nay, I ask no fight, in faith here on the benches are but beardless children, were I clad in armour on my steed there is no man here might match me. Therefore I ask in this court but a Christmas jest, for that it is Yule-tide, and New Year, and there are here many fain for sport. If any one in this hall holds himself so hardy, 4 so bold both of blood and brain, as to dare strike me one stroke for another, I will give him as a gift this axe, which is heavy enough, in sooth, to handle as he may list, and I will abide the first blow, unarmed as I sit. If any knight be so bold as to prove my words let him come swiftly to me here, and take this weapon, I quit claim to it, he may keep it as his own, and I will abide his stroke, firm on the floor. Then shalt thou give me the right to deal him another, the respite of a year and a day shall he have. Now haste, and let see whether any here dare say aught.”
Something to mention here is the involvement in what we deem as the "Beheading Game" which was actually a very common game in Celtic lore. However, in the story of Gawain and the Green Knight, there are other parallels to similar stories in Celtic lore. One of these being the Champions Bargain, Alice Buchanan explains the similarities, saying "1. As in GGK, the challenger offers to submit to a stroke with the ax on condition that he be allowed later to return the blow. In the Champion's Bargain, on the contrary, the exchange of blows is first proposed in the reverse order, and only changed after Dubthach's protest. 2. As in GGK, the completion of the bargain is carried out in a wild region, in GGK beside a turbulent burn, in the Yellow and Terror tale be- side a loch. By contrast, in the Champion's Bargain the adventure con- cludes in the royal palace. 3. As in GGK, the hero is led to the spot by a guide furnished by his host. In the Champion's Bargain, of course, no guidance is necessary. 4. As in GGK, the challenger "let the ax come down three times on his neck." In the Champion's Bargain he deals but one stroke." (Buchanan 317).
She goes further into the context of mixing lore and the similarities between Gawain, Lancelot, and other figures from stories that predate the Green Knight.
It is also worth mentioning how Green impacts the story. Symbolism is prevalent in the story, Green being used as a symbol of nature, the unknown, death, and even the Devil. As the Devil was depicted as a Green being.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the few pieces of literature we have from the 14th century, J.R.R. Tolkien even translated the document. This story has given us a great cultural impact and insight into our past. Its even more relevant to add how previous stories and even pagan lore influenced a Christian story.
Buchanan, Alice. “XXI.” The Irish Framework of Gawain and the Green Knight, 2nd ed., vol. 47, Modern Language Association, 1932, pp. 315–338.
Aegeus. —For thee, behold, death draweth on,Evil and lonely, like thine heart: the hands Of thine old Argo, rotting where she stands, Shall smite thine head in twain, and bitter be To the last end thy memories of me.
It's important to remember that the biggest thing has to do with the oath Jason and Medea made. As we read in Module 1, "Furthermore when men swear to do something for a woman--grant sanctuary, keep a secret, carry a letter--they also enter into a contract with the gods who function as the guarantors of the oath."
Oaths had a very important part in all of Greek culture, and I find that its in fact Aegus to warn Jason of this. Due to him protecting Medea, the latter aids Aegus and wards off Jason by her final punishment. As Karyn Greene writes, "Not only does Medea use oaths to punish Jason for everything that he has done against her, she also uses them to undo everything that she has done for him. While Jason may claim that he has never broken his oaths, it is clear that his punishments are justified because the gods, who play such an active role in the process, do not stop Medea from exacting her revenge. Medea systematically manipulates nearly every single character within the narrative to punish Jason for his betrayal and she is successful in doing so. Medea strips Jason of his reputation but she also takes so much more. By killing both her children and the princess, Medea makes it impossible for Jason’s line to continue. Never will Jason be able to increase the glory of his house, in fact, he will die a pathetic death by being hit over the head with piece of wood fallen from his own ship."
In the final moments, Jason has broken his oath, causing everything to be stripped from him; his hope to earn a crown, the Golden Fleece, his marriage, all gone. As the last testament he had, the Argo, crushed him, along with the weight of all his failures.
Greene, Karyn. Oath Making and Breaking in Euripides' Medea - Denison University. Denison University, 2012, https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=ephemeris.