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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. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?
2. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?
3. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
4. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?
5. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Bosco alter Bergson's drawer metaphor?
2. To what did Vlaminck compare the contentment of humans in their homes?
3. After years of study as a scientist, Bachelard shifted his attention to what new reality?
4. What is topoanalysis, according to Bachelard, with regard to a house and its hidden memories?
5. What is the "objectivity" of a house as described by Bachelard?
6. What, according to Bachelard, is the homology that exists between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy?
7. Why does Bachelard believe the ability to imagine is a major power of human nature?
8. What is a house for a phenomenologist?
9. For Bachelard, how is a nest connected with the foliage of the forest?
10. What is "La Redousse?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Bachelard feel the need to dephilosophize and undo psychoanalysis in order to take a fresh approach to the process of imagination?
Essay Topic 2
Why is the ability to imagine a major power of human nature? How is an imagined poetic image different from the things surrounding us that can be seen?
Essay Topic 3
What is the ontology, or beingness, of a poetic image? Why does Bachelard choose to consider only the poetic image in the scope of "The Poetics of Space," even though he acknowledges that it is the least significant part of a poem?
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