- Centripetal: goes in (inside the text)
- centrifuge: goes out (outside the text)
- New Criticism: centripetal focus
Literature has something to do with the rhetorical form it takes
Harold Bloom hates Frye because he was:
- a devout christian
- ordained Methodist minister
- he believed that all of these things were right at the same time
- 'The Golden Bough' ~Frazer
- survival of the psyche
- "All literature is displaced myth" ~N. Frye
- 'whether it is good or bad is not important it is a question of taste, which means NOTHING' says Frye.
- He says not to think about what it means, but WHAT IT IS.
- Frye believed that the bible is both literally true and myth at the same time
- "If you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig" ~Barak Obama
- bad interpretations aren't the same as making the poem mean whatever you want
- convincing is the most important part
Frye's states of criticism:
- myth
- romantics
- high mimetic mode
- low mimetic mode
- ironic
When Autumn comes:
" You like it under the trees in autumn,
Because everything is half dead.
The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves
And repeats words without meaning.
In the same way, you were happy in spring,
With the half colors of quarter-things,
The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds,
The single bird, the obscure moon--
The obscure moon lighting an obscure world
Of things that would never be quite expressed,
Where you yourself were not quite yourself,
And did not want nor have to be,
Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon,
The A B C of being,
The ruddy temper, the hammer
Of red and blue, the hard sound--
Steel against intimation--the sharp flash,
The vital, arrogant, fatal, dominant X."
~The Motive for Metaphor By Wallace Stevens
"All of life is an affair of the weather"' Wallace Stevens
Literature is corresponding with the seasons:
- melancholy in winter
- happiness in summer
CREATION MYTH:
- The rape of Europa
- Genesis
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