Outline: Sidney's Defense Augmented

This is my essay outline for my 16th Century Poetry and Prose class. I chose the primary reading of Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy as my subject, and firstly presented the Platonic elements of the Defense so well presented by Irene Samuel in the Influence of Plato On Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy.


Sidney's Defense
- the three arguments, in brief

Thesis: Poetry is still present and valid within spheres of contemporary culture.


ARGUMENT ONE:
Poetry is frivolous - quote from Sidney, and explain background of the quote.

- poetry has a place within politics and therapeutic sphere.

- poetry requires skill.

Intertextuality: 4 & 20 Blackbirds

- Poetry in graphic novels - Sandman



ARGUMENT TWO:
Poetry consists of lies - quote from Sidney, explain context of the argument.

Debunk: poetry has universal themes.

proof: adaptation of classical into modernity

Universal theme examples:
- I'll Be Missing You by Puff Daddy - give background: BIG's murder, Puff Daddy was BIG's protege, Faith Evans BIG's wife.

- ABBA, Money3 -


ARGUMENT THREE:
Poetry is immoral - quote from sidney, explain context: poetry holds influences, sways the passion, is irrational, thus dangerous to the Platonian republic.

debunk: Poetry persents a situation. Yezzi Moral authourity.

Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style
- explain song, situation, solution (which is an alternative)

David Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
- explain album, theme, situation, consequences - could have alternatives, presents a hypothetical situation that is almost self-prophetic as it applies to Bowie's career after releasing the album.

Outline: Industrialism and DH Lawrence

In the beginning of the semester, I wrote an essay on the Commercialization of Art, based on Lawrence Rainey's Cultural Economy of Modernism, in the Cambridge Companion to Modernism.

It's a shameful essay. I will post it anyway though, in its marked, unedited form *sigh* How could I have forgotten to edit it, I don't know. You'd think a Writing Assistant would know better! It will have to be later, because for some reason it's not on my computer....

Anyway, I am trying to write on this subject and analyze DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover with this subject in mind. I think I shot myself in the foot. My professor requires five critical sources, and you know, it's really hard to find anything that studies LCL in anything other than its sexual context. GET OVER THE SEX ALREADY, PEOPLE. QUEEN VICTORIA DIED LONG AGO, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN.

Contemplated outline:

Commercialization of art is linked to the industrialism in Lady Chatterly's Lover.

The industralism in Lady Chatterly's Lover can be paralleled to the commercialization that affected art in the Modernist period.

commercialization helped art prosper / reach the masses
industralism in wragby revived clifford, opened opportunity for progress

art had to be protected against the rough masses
clifford wanted to protect wragby hall and its surrounding estate

commercialization in art affected the quality because of the value that began to be attached to it.
industralism and its effects affected the quality of life of the workers at Wragby.
Clifford's friend that died and his mansion (representative of art) was torn down.


Obviously due for a change soon, it just is there to get me started;

I've found some beautiful stuff on Lawrence's work, though.

Adelman, Gary. Reclaiming D. H. Lawrence. London: Associated University Presses. 2002.

Gary Adelman's teaching assistant, Susan, uses the metaphor of the mirror - whether of people or a situation. It is painful to a student, but the metaphor is apt if we look at the idea of DH Lawrence using Wragby's environment to mirror the situation of Art in the Modern Period - being ravaged, although its champion feels the need to participate in the capitalist economics for his own self-esteem.

Worthen, John. "D.H. Lawrence and the 'Expensive Edition Business'". Modernist Writers and the Marketplace. Eds. Ian WIllison, Warwick Gould and Warren Chernaik. London: Macmillian Press Ltd. 1996.

116 John worthen
DH larence: was impatient with the expensive edition markketplace, wanting his books to be available to the general public, with whom he had more sympathyhy for. yet the expensive edition marketplace was the market he ended up having to do his best in if he wanted to support himself. It is like the quandry of Clifford who has to preserve Wragby, yet ends up progressing the industry, the same thing which threatens the preservation of wragby.

These are serious-looking hardcover books which are bafflingly easier to read than the following book:

Shiach, Morag. "Work and Selfhood in Lady Chatterly's Lover." Tje Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence. Ed. Amme Fernihough. Cambridge: University Press. 2001.

"The working class have been reduced, by industrialisation and by education, to false consciousness and coercive will" (Shiach 97).

Looks like I've got 3 out of a required 5.