Title: Russian Formalism

Subject: John Keats : On first Looking into Chapman’s Homer

Date: 8.3.24

<aside> 💡 Key Points:

• Main Ideas
• Key words
  • Subjectivity, Objectivity, Form, Fabula, Syuzhet, Familiarity, Defamilirization,
• Questions that connect points
• Important points

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<aside> ✏️ Notes:

Main lecture notes

Objectivity vs Subjectivity

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• Most important problem is the problem of subjectivity
• Act of reading subjective or objective
• When you claim smt objective your language should comminicate the objective*
• Figurative language*
• Usage of poetic language contains ambigiuty, it gives pleasure to reader..
• Idea of death
• Act of reading*
• Russian formalism is the first one to make criticism scientific
• Subjective elements in the act of reading*
• Form is superior to content
• Literary criticism is the scientific way of literature.
• Genetic Criticism?
• Fabula and Syuzhet*

Art as Technique

• Art is thinking in images.
• In art we think but not in concepts?
• Images changes nation to nation etc.
• Representation true images
• Children inclined to perceive life through images they are not rational.
• Common people cannot understand abstract ideas.. Common people are like children, politicians use common language to manipulate.
• Purpose of art
• Art is a way of experiencing object.
• Why making something strange is important?
• Familiarity?
• You must write about human experience in literature, because it is familiar.?
• Making something interesting.
• How you see life, represent life. Form makes it valuable.
• Defamilirization
• Does poetic language give satisfaction?

Chapman’s Homer

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Petrarchan sonnet

Volta then

8 -6 octave sestet problem and answer

10 syllabls

Iambic pentameter with the exception of last 3 couplet

Morphology of the folktale

Structure is universal even though setting characters etc are differentiate

Objectivity is claimed

• [ ] New Criticism

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<aside> 📎 Summary:

A brief summary and conclusion about the notes/lecture

Russian Formalism and New Criticism and John Keats :

• On first Looking into Chapman’s Homer;
• Russian Formalism 50-54

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Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.