Monday, October 6

"Sidney wrote his Defense because of some ass named Stephan Gosson..." ~ Dr. Sexson

"I am I..." from Don Q. mirror "I am the I am"

everything in the newspaper is literature- archetypes are everywhere

'comedy'

'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'

"The close resemblance between the conceptions of anagogic criticism and those of religion has led many to assume that they can only be related by making one supreme and the other subordinate." pg 126-7 of Frye

liberate: to free, autonomous structure of numbers and letters...

betrayal of intellectuals (Sir Philip Sidney)

historian is bound to facts, while the philosopher is interested in how something is represented, and it is the artists job to present it differently than it really is to give us both the precepts and the example

bread is a troupe: 'our daily bread' = sustenance and all nutrition that sustains us

synecdoche: disconnected from everything else but themselves

metonymy: a word that means something else

~both are troupes substitutes a part for the whole

"literature is to teach, that is its purpose" ~Sidney (Frye disagrees with this)

poesis: Greek for poet

"When we pass into anagogy, nature becomes, not the container, but the thing contained, and the archetypal universal symbols, the city, the garden, the quest, the marriage, are no longer the desirable forms that man constructs inside nature, but are themselves the forms of nature." ~Frye pg 119

"Only the poet disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow, in effect, into another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in nature, as the heroes, demi-gods, cvclops, chimeras, furies, and such like; so as he goeth hand in hand with nature, not enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit." ~Sidney

nature: brazen; poet: golden

pleasure principle

story vs reality: the story of a picnic can be the perfect day, but the reality may have ants- art does not simply show you the nature of good things, they make you see the reality and plan to learn from it and avoid it

Terrible things in lit:

• King Lear
• Titus Andronicus
• Procne, Tereus and Philomela
• Oedipus

If we didn't have poets, and we die, who will write our epitaphs