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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?

2. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

3. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?

4. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?

5. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

2. What is the "objectivity" of a house as described by Bachelard?

3. What does Baudelaire note, with regard to houses and the weather?

4. What, according to Bachelard, is a dream house?

5. How does Victor Hugo's character, Quasimodo, describe Notre Dame Cathedral? What functions do his feelings represent?

6. How do cellar fears differ from attic fears, based on Bachelard's theories in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut"?

7. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

8. To what did Vlaminck compare the contentment of humans in their homes?

9. What, according to Bachelard, is the homology that exists between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy?

10. For Bachelard, how is a nest connected with the foliage of the forest?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Bachelard cite so many writers and great thinkers to shore up his theories rather than create his own isolated narrative? Is his need to cite authors for "evidence" a remnant of his scientifically-oriented mode of thinking? Is his technique successful?

Essay Topic 2

As referenced throughout "The Poetics of Space," what is topoanalysis of a space? What sort of space does Bachelard describe as topophilia? How does the concept of topoanalysis relate to the study of the isolated poetic image?

Essay Topic 3

In "Miniature," what does Bachelard mean when he states that miniatures are not just smaller large things? Consider views through a magnifying glass.

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