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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 proposes that a person's time, speech, and very being are affected by what?
2. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?
3. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?
4. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?
5. According to Valery, how does a mollusk build?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Valery's knowledge of geometry fail him in regard to spiral shells?
2. What effect does proximity to the horizon have on all things seen?
3. How does the Hughes character, Emily, reveal the concept of "invented childhood"?
4. As described by Bachelard, what is the forced-choice form of geometric reasoning associated with inside and outside that clouds metaphor?
5. With regard to metaphoric levels of existence, Bachelard theorizes that poets differ from philosophers in what way?
6. What is the human intimacy associated with corners as described by the author in "Corners"?
7. Bachelard compares what images of nature put forward by Robinet and Michelet?
8. Through poetry, in the mind of Bachelard, what does calm become?
9. In the mind of Bachelard, what is the dichotomy of the corner?
10. What does silence allow a person to do in the opinion of Bachelard?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As expressed in "The Dialectics of Outside and Inside," how are outside space and inside space like a mixture of being and nothingness? How, according to Michaux, can claustrophobia and agoraphobia occur simultaneously even though they are opposites?
Essay Topic 2
As described in "The Phenomenology of Roundness," what is absolute bird and the being of round life? How does this concept fit with Bachelard's poetics of space?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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