Wednesday, April 4, 2012

FINAL QUESTIONS:
1) What was the famous creation that Fluud used for a mnemonic?
The Globe Theatre
2) What animal was Camillo attacked by?
A Lion.
3) In the oral traditions the poet sings about the songs that have been sung.
"Song is the remembrance of songs sung.
4) Talisman
An object, typically an inscribed ring or stone, that is thought to have magic powers and to bring good luck.
5) What were the 5 time periods that Kane discusses in the prologue?
Look it up...
6) Memorize the titles of Kane's chapters.
Patterns
Maps
Boundaries
Dreams
Complementarity
Traditions
Context
7) Ong says Western thought refers to language as _____. Oral traditions refer to language as _____.
blank 1) structure
blank 2) memory
(from p. 166)
8) What field was not considered a field of academic study until the 20th c.?
English Literature
9) Modern writing is to _____ characters where primary reality is to ____characters.
blank 1) round
blank 2) flat
10) Ong believed that literature was oral based where Derrida believed literature was text based.
11) What image is Simonides represented by on Bruno's memory wheel?
A figure of a man.
"Melicus in memorium"
(p. 222)
12) Myths are not only about the gods they're also about _____.
Nature.
13) What term does Levi-Strauss sugest we replace "primitive" with?
"Without writing"
(Ong, ch. 7)
14) Which letters of the alphabet are represented in Lull's memory system?
B-K
15) Walter's question... ? Check his blog.
16) What is Kane's definition of myth?
The song the earth sings to itself.

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