Audiovisual Culture Fights Back!
Key Terms:
Points of View:
Not-so-Minor Characters!
Miscellany:
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According to a C & E professor, the philosopher whose ideas are summed up in the following song.
[Play "All You Need is Love" by The Beatles]
Who is Baruch Spinoza?
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From the Latin word for “suffering,” this term refers to a text dealing with martyrdom. It was also a lead single on Rod Stewart’s 1980 Album, Foolish Behavior.
What is Passion or “Passio?”
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The technique, taught to Christine by Lady Reason, allows her to interpret something that is negative in a positive light, or vice versa, no matter what the author’s original intention.
What is antiphrasis?
1000
Two powerful, virtuous women in the lais of Marie de France who, in effect, run the show and the stories they're from.
Who are the Fairy Queen ("Lanval") and the noble woman from "Guigemar,"
Arguably also, Queen Iseult in "Chevrefoil" and the Princess and her aunt in "Les Deux Amanz"?
1000
This muscular figure with wings, a scale, and a lock of hair on his forehead represents the opportune moment.
Who is Kairos?
2000
This character type in the Middle Ages is presented in the Wife of Bath's Tale, and illustrated by the following image:
Who is The Loathly Lady?
2000
Throughout his writings, Bacon advocates this method of reasoning whereby a general principle is derived from particular observations.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
2000
In this chapter of Genesis, the human role is framed as having dominion over creation as opposed to gardening and care giving.
What is Genesis 1?
Genesis creates the problem of "dominion" over the animals, and yet, woman and man are made simultaneously - leading perhaps to greater equality between the two. Genesis 2, on the other hand, presents humans as gardeners and caregivers, and yet creates a hierarchy between man and woman.
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Name two examples of the woman as temptress in the Ancient, Medieval or Early Modern world.
Who are Potiphar’s wife in the Joseph story, Guenivere in Lanval, Eve in Paradise Lost?
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Name two characters live with a permanent or temporary disability.
Who is Paul, the Wife of Bath, Guigemar, Tiresias (and arguably the Loathly Lady, Caliban, and Ariel (before the play immobilized in a tree by Sycorax)?
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Christine de Pizan’s name is one of the 39 powerful historical and mythical women who appears as a placemat at the table in this art installation on display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
What is Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party?
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This highly conventionalized medieval tradition, most typically, presents a knight who develops an "ennobling" passion for a married noblewoman.
What is courtly love?
3000
In a new and improved commonwealth, run by this character in The Tempest, there would be no occupations, no disparity in wealth and no rulers.
Who is Gonzalo?
3000
Name 3 women characters and key objects that are associated with them.
Who are Lady Reason -Mirror, Lady Rectitude - a rod of peace; Lady Justice - a cup?
Other possible answer: The Wife of Bath and ten pounds of cloth on her head every Sunday.
3000
Three sets of brothers in the background or foreground of works this semester who fight for dominance.
Who are Joseph and his brothers, Etiocles and Polynices, Antonio and Prospero, and arguably, Sebastian and Alonso?
4000
The above illustration of Job was created by this artist-poet who also illustrated Paradise Lost and famously said that Milton was “of the Devil’s party without knowing it.”
Who is William Blake?
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According to Ibn Khaldun, humans are bound together by this form of social solidarity or group feeling, originating from the Arabic term for “to bind.”
What is asabiyyah?
4000
These two early Confucian scholars had opposite feelings about human nature regarding whether we incline towards good or evil. Name the thinker and the philosophy of each.
Who were Mencius/Mengzi (Good), Xunzi (Bad)?
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These three characters either appear or are named as mothers and daughters in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Who are Miranda, Sycorax, and Claribel?
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In Novum Organum, Bacon describes this type of "Idols of the Mind" which are universal to human beings and involve the anthropocentric tendency to assert falsely that "man is the measure of all things."
What are the "Idols of the Tribe"?
5000
[Play music to the following song:]
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
This character lies and tells a deeper truth in this song. Identify the character, the lie and the deeper truth.
Who is Ariel? The lie: What is Alonso has drowned? The deeper truth: What are Alonso and many characters in The Tempest who currently or about to undergo a “sea change” (a fundamental paradigm shift) "into something rich and strange”?
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This term refers to resident aliens in ancient Athens (the Sophists, for example) who were only offered partial rights, but may have benefited from an outsider perspective.
What is a metic?
5000
An Eastern or Ionian sophist; A Western or Sicilian sophist - the first claimed that “man is the measure of all things”; the second that beautiful language has a physical effect on the body, like magic.
Who are Protagoras and Gorgias, respectively?
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These three sisters whose names roughly translate to “Love,” “peace,” and “purity” refuse to submit to the Roman governor, Dulcitius, and face the consequences.
Who are Agape, Chionia, and Irene?
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Name 3 characters in C & E works who have done damage with books or to books.
Who are Wife of Bath, Jankyn, the various male authors listed by Christine, Prospero?
There are arguably a number of others who fit the bill here too!