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What is Literary Criticism? . Appreciation Interpretation Criticism. What is it about? Do you like it? Why?. What else does it mean from a certain perspective or in some context(s)?. 由賞析到批評理論. 閱讀、了解. 欣賞. 分析、詮釋. What does it mean? And how?. 批評.
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What is Literary Criticism? Appreciation Interpretation Criticism
What is it about? Do you like it? Why? What else does it mean from a certain perspective or in some context(s)? 由賞析到批評理論 閱讀、了解 欣賞 分析、詮釋 What does it mean? And how? 批評 理論化 How are its meanings produced?
First readings: 1. Circle the parts you like or don't understand 2. Ask yourself: “What's it about?” 3. Ask yourself: “Do I like it? Any Questions?”
2nd step: After re-reading • Ask: “Howdoes it convey the meanings? Any contradictions, ambiguities or ironies? • “Is there any pattern (repetition, contrast: conflicts, paradox, etc.)? • “Are there any lit. techniques?”
“Manly Games” byJan Svankmajer 1st reading: Questions 1: • Who are the major characters? • The characters: the TV viewer, the soccer players and the audience • Why do the players and the referee resemble the viewer?
“Manly Games” byJan Svankmajer 1st reading: Questions 2: • Why are there so many violent scenes? Starting with a player’s head’s being crushed between a pair of saucepan lids. • Is there exception to these violence scenes shown on TV? • How do the TV viewer and the audience respond to the violence? • Why do the players go to the viewer’s apartment?
2nd Viewing: taking notes and trying to answer the questions • Surreal or grotesque Scenes of violence: • Eyeballs sucked out with sink plungers; • a tap is installed on a face in place of a nose; • three players are dispatched with scissors, • one is inflated with a hypodermic syringe until his head explodes, • one has his head put into a meat grinder • a train runs through the face of another; • a corkscrew is used to open another's face; • three more players are pounded into the ground with a sledgehammer; • a player's eyes, nose, mouth and other facial features are cut out with a pastry cutter.
“Manly Games” • Techniques: • pixilation, i.e. the animation of human actors. + clay animation + the use of archive documentary shots. Effects? Realistic? Why is the title Manly Games, but not Game?
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” by Shakespeare • 1st reading: • 汝比夏日更美﹐更溫和﹐更長久﹐ • 只要汝長存與我詩中。
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” by Shakespeare • 2nd reading: • Contradictions? Ambiguities? • Patterns (of words or sounds)? • Other lit. techniques?
Summer’s images of beauty the darling buds of May every fair from fair sometime declines Images of transience or violence: Rough winds summer's lease . .. too short a date too hot the eye of heaven [Sun’s] gold complexion dimm'd Thou art more lovely and more temperate thy eternal summer Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
Howard Moss's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" Who says you're like one of the dog days? You're nicer. And better. Even in May, the weather can be gray, And a summer sub-let doesn't last forever.
Sometimes the sun's too hot; Sometimes it is not. Who can stay young forever? People break their necks or just drop dead!
But you? Never! If there‘s just one condensed reader (讀者﹐讀本) left Who can figure out the abridged alphabet （節錄字母﹚, After you're dead and gone, In this poem you'll live on!
