Wednesday, September 3rd

"Where's the literature here?" ~ Dr. Sexson

"The argument of our last essay, however, led to the principle that all structures in words are partly rhetorical, and hence literary, and that the notion of a scientific or philosophical verbal structure free of rhetorical elements is an illusion."
~Northrop Frye

Lecture notes:

• all words are literary because they are rhetorical, "science is really literature"
• ongoing class assignment: keep our ears open for literature in everyday speech
• "where did this interest in similes come from?!" Dr. Sexson on the word 'like'
• "there is nothing that is boring, only people are boring"
• Always ask yourself: wheres the literature here?
• epiphany: a sudden manifestation of the divine
• the idea of order at key west by Wallace Stevens
• "how do I know what I think until I see what I say?" ~ E.M. Forster
• 'Archetypes of Literature' by N. Frye
• a helpful AoL (Archetypes of lit) site