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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. How does Bachelard describe images that attribute human qualities to a nest?
2. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
3. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?
4. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?
5. What is a center of order in a house, according to Bachelard?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the wardrobe in relation to a house as described by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes"?
2. What is "La Redousse?"
3. What is the "objectivity" of a house as described by Bachelard?
4. 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"?
5. Why does Bachelard focus on the isolated poetic image, even though it is the least significant element in the composition of a poem?
6. For Bachelard, how is a nest connected with the foliage of the forest?
7. How did Bosco alter Bergson's drawer metaphor?
8. After years of study as a scientist, Bachelard shifted his attention to what new reality?
9. As stated by the author in "House and Universe," what is the significance of old houses one used to live in?
10. What is topoanalysis, according to Bachelard, with regard to a house and its hidden memories?
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 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
What is Baudelaire's interpretation of the concept of "vast" as explained in "Intimate Immensity"? How and why does Bachelard disagree with Baudelaire's interpretation?
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