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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. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

2. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?

3. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?

4. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?

5. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are old homes and nests similar according to Bachelard?

2. What is the difference between image and metaphor, for Bachelard?

3. What is topophilia, according to Bachelard?

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

5. What is "La Redousse?"

6. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

7. What is the anthropo-cosmology of a house as described by Bachelard?

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

9. As explained by Bachelard, what is the beingness, or ontology, of the poetic image?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the view of a phenomenologist, how does an individual inhabit his vital space? What is the anthropo-cosmology of a space?

Essay Topic 2

As mentioned in "Introduction," discuss the distinct viewpoints of The Poet and The Phenomenologist (capitalized to indicate their stature as characters of type in "The Poetics of Space"), as contrasted with Bachelard's own former identity, the scientist?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Bachelard feel the need to dephilosophize and undo psychoanalysis in order to take a fresh approach to the process of imagination?

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