ENGL 3045 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Metonymy
11 Apr 2016
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Foundation of democracy caused by threat of violence. Deus ex machina an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel. Aristole"s sense on the necessary and probable, causality in plot. Learn mimesis when you learn truth, truthfulness is what will teach you. Emotional stuff is where you get pleasure. There is a tension in the poetics between emotion and truth irreconcilable. Pity is when punishment is undeserved, punishment to that extent (there was a crime and something was deserved: can"t have aristotelian tragedy about hitler, or about christ. Tragic character accidentally commits mistake in excess, but is still a moral, virtuous person. I have to sometimes cave in to the prejudices of my audience in order to move them. If the effect in the audience is what it is about.
