Monday, 3/9/15: All Kinds of Glory!

* Open

• “Pride relates to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
• Please read your first foray into Austen literary criticism. 
• Answer in your journal: Given your reading, How do you see that "prejudice" and "vanity" have more specific meaning in their original context?

• Calendar
• This Week
• Poetry Santa Cruz
• Chaucer
• Rewrites
• Next Week:
• 1/2 Mark
• Midterm on Block Day, Next Week
• Forms
• Austen
• Romantic Writers and Notes Thus Far

* Essay Analysis Review

• Joseph Addison's Character's Diary
• Locating the tone is key. 
• Internal life is key.  See it best in juxtaposition.
• Pettiness: treatment of subordinates.
• The Spectator (March 4, 1712):  What kind of work might this be extracted from?
• Notice 
• verbs
• pronoun?
• what is he doing?
• winds

• Glory: Grand Vizier and Dreams and Internal Life

• Boswell on Johnson and Addison
• Main issue: "nerveless and feeble" is "very [unjust]." 
• Both are praised. 
• Johnson is not deprecated (consider the larger context, The Life of Samuel Johnson).
• Devices: parallelism, similes, extended simile or analogy
• What connotations are implied by the similes?

• Glory: that last sentence; qualified and erudite and periodic...just like Johnson.

* Austen

* Poetry Santa Cruz

HW: Poetry Santa Cruz Work; Rewrites