Keesey, Ch 4 (Introduction)

Check out my blog entry.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/the_early_bird_gets_the_worm_h.html

Angela said "The early bird gets the worm," but I thought The Second Mouse Gets the Chesse

"How does the poem, in conforming to a reality already known, give us knowledge? Or, if the reality is not already known, how can we be sure the poem does in fact conform to it?"

Drama...

Alterations are Part of Reality and Don’t Contradict It
“But when we inquire how the artist has achieved this result, we seem to be faced with the paradox that it has been achieved by altering the very reality the artist claims to imitate” (Keesey 211).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/02/alterations_are_part_of_realit.html

I need an explanation, please.

“To put it simply, if we can show that literature does, in some important ways, tell us the truth about experience, then the various forms of ‘scientific’ thought can be met on their own ground and the vast enterprise connected with literature, and our own intense personal interest can be given a widely accepted justification.”
-From Donald Keesey’s Contexts for Criticism, “Chapter Four-Mimetic Criticism: Reality as Context,” page 213
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/03/i_think_i_like_mimetic_critici.html

Major Mimetic Muddy Point
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/03/major-mimetic-muddy-point.html

"he also objected to poetry on the affective grounds that it feeds and water the passions......it gives us a false view of the world" (Keesey 206)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/03/plato-hated-poe.html#comments

Again, I only noticed now that my original post didn't work. Here it is again: Muddled Mimetically.

"...mimesis...it explains how the artist must look past the accidents, the individual peculiarities, to discover the essential or characteristic form...The artist gives us the essence of a character, a situation, an action" (Keesey 208).

I plan to present on Keesey's Chapter 4 Introduction. In this section, Keesey discusses in general terms the use of Mimetic Criticism, it's strong points as well as drawbacks.