English 300- notable notes

These are some of the notes I find most interesting from class...just something I wanted to post:

• Critics are parasites- parasites end up killing the host
• The whole of Northrop Frye: "All literature is displaced myth"
• Pseudo Criticism: subjective, descriptive, emotional, objective
• Sun rise/ sun set: rhetorical; we use them, even though they're not right
• Myth: a collection of stories that help people to live their lives
• Pharmakos: scapegoat
• Mimic- to copy- to imitate

The History of Literary Criticism in two minutes:

• Ancient- world- Mimetic
• Neo classical- audience- pragmatic
• romantics- artist(s)-expression
• modern-work- objective

(M.H. Abrams)