November 8, 2012
Class Notes
Yesterday:
We spoke about a famous artist, Jackson Pollock, who is an abstract artist.
Today’s class:
Has a house in New York and Stony Brook maintains the house.
His paintings are expensive
What is abstract art?
(expression): fiction, non-fiction, poetry,
Aesthetics
Techniques
material
Abstract
Scientific method
Art is compared to:
(communication): organize, share feelings, content, history, didactic
Material
Practical value
Utilitarian value
Example: journals, articles, critical texts.
Abstract art doesn’t teach us yet it has aesthetics to it.
Non-fiction: a text that is written where somebody is writing facts and truths - narratives pros that’s trying to present and makes the reader enjoy the story.
Prompts:
Structure:
Images that go with TBK
People images (father, son, God, and devil)
Fyodor- 55 years old father
Dmitri- with two girls
Fydor- with 1st marriage and then 2nd marriage.
Zosima- spiritual leader at a monastery
Zosima- book 3. Chapter 11, near death.
Alyosha and Zosima- Book 6, chapter 1
Alyosha and Grushenka- their relationship
Zosima- book 7, odor
Dmitri- money
Alyosha and Grushenka- boyfriend & girlfriend and Dmitri- book 8
Illyosha and Alyosha- two little boys
Details:
Annotation of Lawrence Kohlberg’s “Psychological Analysis and Literary Form: A Study of Doubles in Dostoevsky.”
Dostoevsky had autoscopic phenomena
Characters and their psychology (chart)
Analysis:
Summaries of TBK
The author doesn’t always start off the chapters the same way. He doesn’t have the same formula to start the chapters the same way.
Dostoevsky repeated begins the chapter by focusing on a character and then in the next three chapters trying to explains the character relating to society.
Next class:
Prompt 1- Structure
Prompt 2- Thesis
Prompt 3- Analysis
Presentation- Details
Class ends by reading TBK.
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