Some questions that came up in our meeting were: 1.The name of the novel: What could be the relationship between the name of the protagonist and Oscar Wilde? Where the name of Oscar Wao come from? 2. The role of narrator: What is the narrator´s gaze on Oscar Wao? How can you indentify him/it in […]
A beautiful poem about the split between the poet as individual and the poet as an literary artifact: http://boiteaoutils.blogspot.com/2010/10/poema-des-los-dones-by-jorge-luis.html
AFTER reading Elliot, Freccero, Stewart and Vickers we came out with some interesting questions : How fetishism vs. idolatry plays an important role in the poetics of Petrarch? How can we reconciliate the T.S. Elliot concept of “personality” of poet and the lyric I created by Petrarch? To what extend the idea of darkness produces […]
