Eng2800: Mapping the Ancient World

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Hey Everyone,

Here are a few of the questions we’ll be discussing our next class. The reading was really intense, and a bit hard to understand so please feel free to bring some of your own questions to class as well if you like.

1) Moretti, in this literary criticism Graphs, Maps,Trees, stresses the relevance of maps in literature. he begin his arguement by asking; what are literary maps, and what can they do that can’t be done with words? What are your thoughts on that?

2) Moretti concluded his argument/criticism by giving us his answer for what he believe maps do. He states that “they are a good way to prepare a text for analysis…… you reduce the text to a few elements, and abstract them from the narrative flow, and construct a new artificial object like the maps. Does this seem to you, a good way to analyst a literary text? why or why not?
 

Hey Everyone,

I’m Stephan, I’m a recent transfer to Baruch so I’m still working on getting use to the place. I’m an economics major  and I guess my favorite book, as of now would be Girl In Translation BY Jean Kwok.

I love forward to class with you guys!