Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Notes 1-30

Blog: engage Walter Ong in chapters 1-3 on a point you find interesting.
For midterm, memorize 51 items that will be useful to you in memory theater.

The Homeric question: what is the Odyssey and Iliad, and who authored? Both are works of high oral literature and collaborative works--no single Homer.

Chirography: study of penmanship and handwriting
Typography: the style and appearance of written matter

When memorizing poetry, pay attention to assonance and consonance (Kubla Khan). It will help.
You are what you remember--memory moves into the realm of the ethical

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