“Necessary confusion: Magical Realism” assignment 15 pts.
- Look up words that are in the underlined parts. 2. Write what the sentence means after you’ve looked it up.6 pts.
a.“Ironically,the older,‘responsible’realismmaybe outflanked by themostadvanced scientificknowledgeaswellasbythe‘discredited.’”
b.Basedona faith inmechanisticscience,thisviewhasbynowbeeneffectively dismantled byscienceitselfandbroughtbeforetheeverydayeyebyelectronicengineering.
c.Quantumreality,stillso littleunderstoodeven by scientiststhemselves,isnonethelessfully formulated andistheindispensablebasisof boththeWorldWideWebof electronicinformationtransferand analysisand thecracking ofthegenomiccode.
d.“Imaginativedescriptionsofthequantumworld by sciencewritersresemblethe ‘instantaneous’world suggestedbymuchmagicalrealistwriting.”
e.Technology loomsasa simulacrumof imagination.
f.Whatloomsforthetechnologized reality of theglobalized citizenasa consequenceisthusan unprecedentednumbnessinwhich everydaydiscourseremainsstubbornlyin aruling modeofmechanisticinsistence,reinforcedbythepersistenceofeconomicbottom-linethinking,whilethetransformationsof realityinwhich ittrafficssofamiliarly becomesteadilymorefantastic.
- 3 pts. What does this article say about how human truth is based on magical realism?
- 6 pts. Find 2sentencesfrom thetextthatcontainsphrasesor clauses.
- Writeeach phraseorclauseand punctuation onaseparatelineof your paper. Be sure to keep one line as thesentencein itsoriginalorder.
- “Remove”phrasesand determinethemainsubject,verb,and objectofeach clause.
- What is thebasicmeaning of thesentenceand howitdoes it relate toa centralideaofthetext.
Forexample:“Yettheyofferspiriteddefensesofamovementthattheyseeasaliveand growing;theyrelateits poeticsto earliermovementsinartandtoclassicauthors;andtheyaveritsinsightsto beonthewholemore revealingthanevasiveoftherealworld,aworldinwhichcommonsenserealismhasalways beenonlya narrow partandwhosecosmicdimensions,the presenceofthepast,dareto beenvisionedonceagain.”
IN CLASS :Get strips of paper – not homework; we will do in class.
Sentences need to go into differentorders. Foreach new sentenceformed,:
- Placethepunctuation intheproperplace.Should anypunctuationor conjunctionsbechangedor added?(L.9- 10.2a)
- Whatisthemeaningof the rearranged sentence? Doesitmakesense? Doesthemeaning becomeclearer ordoes itchange?
- Examinethestructureof thesentencebasedon theplacementofthephrases and clauses.Doesthestructurereflectan accuratemeaning?Doesituseparallelstructurewhen appropriate? (L.9-10.1a)
- Howdoestheplacementofphrasesaffecttheirmeaning?
- Howdoestheplacementofphrasesor clausesaffectthestyleor effectoftherearranged sentence? (L.9-10 1b)