Question
Friedrich Kittler’s Discourse Networks 1800/1900 is bookended by discussions of two adaptations of this legend. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this legend, whose main character has a secretary called Demoiselle Luste in Paul Valéry’s version. An adaptation of this legend has a “Prologue in Heaven” and features a demonic black poodle.
ANSWER: Faust legend [accept the legend of Doctor Faustus, Johann Georg Faust, or John Faustus; accept Faust Part One, My Faust, or Mon Faust]
[10h] Discourse Networks begins with Goethe’s Faust leaving the “Republic of Scholars” by writing this sentence. Ludwig Wittgenstein often quoted this unusual translation of a Biblical sentence from the play.
ANSWER: “In the beginning was the Act” [or “In the beginning was the Deed”; or “Im anfang war die tat”]
[10m] Goethe’s and Valéry’s Fausts get a chapter in a book by Hans Robert Jauss from this school of literary theory. The audience’s “horizon of expectation” is a key idea in this school of Wolfgang Iser and Stanley Fish.
ANSWER: reader-response theory [or reception theory; or Rezeptionsästhetik; accept Constance School or Konstanzer Schule; accept Towards An Aesthetic of Reception]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 20.00 | 100% | 83% | 17% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Les Missourables | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Lisan al-Quib | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | var merchants | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |