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social: how does lit improve life
political: how does lit improve life
religious: how does lit make you better person
academic: how does lit improve knowledge/wisdom

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Dreamland is the two powerful visions of literature, the world we want and nightmare world we do not want

Dream world = heaven - comedy/quest romance

Nightmare world = hell - tragedy/irony

The keys are comparing new text you read to everything else you have ever read

Patterns will come out

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- literature shows us that it follows the 4 cosmic levels of experience
- heaven, eden, middle earth and hell
- conceptual metaphor
- “adam looking up and down at the worlds”
- stories go up and down the 4 worlds
an epic goes through all 4 stories

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The calling to speak well/the job that is spoken well

wider applications of a good literary training

There is an ideal world for every job

relates words to work/jobs: job description

this is a job description of putting heaven on earth in your job

"money is the root all evil"

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Why would a great artist not be a great leader?

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Why would a great artist not be a great leader?

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Artists make art about their obsessions, live by their conventions

They are not life-like, rather story-like

So artists don’t have a good sense of deconstructing real life

Critics are more suited for the role of a leader

trust the story not the storyteller; trust the art not the artist

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How is literature not a refuge from life?

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How is literature not a refuge from life?

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It is not a refuge from life because some themes in literature are often present/inspired by life already. So you're not escaping life.
*can stories influence/change life/history?
*1984 by Orwell;
*sci-fi stories change life

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Give an example how the imagination puts up a necessary wall to life:

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Give an example how the imagination puts up a necessary wall to life:

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Fantasy vs. Reality

Use literature to determine what is right & wrong, helps our imagination

what we imagine is not realistic,  that some ideas should not be brought to life.

example for above: 20yr old plays GTA, goes out to reality and drives reckless, proceeds to hit a taxi driver and kills him - hence that some ideas should not be brought to life

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Defend the use of violence in literature

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Defend the use of violence in literature

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Violence is generally presented as a bad thing in literature

We are exposed to it in literature and associate it with a negative connotation

The more exposed we are to it in literature, the less likely we are to find pleasure in it in reality

learn lessons on how to avoid violence without anyone getting hurt

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Explain the structure of the Bible. How does it help us understand literature?

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Explain the structure of the Bible. How does it help us understand literature?

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•repeated rising and falling pattern; heaven or perfect world on top; hellish or suffering world on bottom
•uses typology and foreshadowing/foreshadowed between the Old and New Testament; seals off Bible from reality
•literature follows similar plot structure (4 cosmic levels); be guide to life of what happens
•biblical myths are used in many other forms of literature

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“Lift up your hearts”, “on one hand and the other”, “political left wing and right wing” are examples of 

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“Lift up your hearts”, “on one hand and the other”, “political left wing and right wing” are examples of 

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Conceptual metaphors using metaphors as an idea.
Up is good; down is bad; body parts; bird parts;

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Why are the qualities of poetry the same qualities of well written prose (sentences) ?

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Why are the qualities of poetry the same qualities of well written prose (sentences) ?

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The more specific a work of art, the more universal it is.

They want poems to relate to everyone, not just one person.

rhythm (energy), metaphors (concrete language), concise, (schemes/tropes)

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What Bible stories relate to pastoral myths and progress myths?

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What Bible stories relate to pastoral myths and progress myths?

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Pastoral Myths: literature that talks about simplicity of life compared to the complex life we live

Progress Myths: society will continue to grow and advance bettering our conditions of life

example for Progress Myth: using the Exodus myth as an idea (evolution)

example for Pastoral Myth: is using the Genesis myth as an idea

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Synchronicity shows how literature or art is...

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Synchronicity shows how literature or art is...

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A meaningful coincidence
Examples:
- Thinking of someone and then they call you
- thinking of your favourite song and it comes on
- every moment in a movie/novel
- literature influencing psychology (idea of synchronicity)
-stories have to be literature-like not life-like.