Monday, October 27

"That's what fairy tales are all about, puberty" ~Dr. Sexson

Presentations:

Samuel Johnson (Dustin):


Liza poet series
poetry should be simple and easy to understand
biography would be only the truth, not prose

Longinus (Kari):

Deeply influential
the Sublime is important to him
authentic aim is to judge and make sure that it's sublime
sublime: that which cannot be expressed because it is so much beyond anything else
control of metaphor
2 that reached this- Homer and Sapho

Michel Foucault (Erica):

postmodernist- doesn't like labels
French
all about relationships
prisoners (voices concerns and feelings)
3 volumes- History of Sexuality
repression hypothesis refuted in the 60's- it is steadily becoming the center of our lives
led to what we know today as sexuality
it is a huge part of us
archeology of knowledge

Julia Kristeva (Jake):

Bulgarian (southern)

psycho-analyst in the 60's

structuralists and semi- audist= signifier/ meaning

didn't like these things so created seminalist: no absolute meaning ex) sarcasm

inter-textuality: applied to text, not words

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My Book and Heart Notes for exam:

• ideas that are taught (obvious)
• 'practical advice' then is now common sense
• death and rebirth when you start reading
• innocence and experience

DQ:

• when we learn to read we lose innocence
• innocence to experience (Blake to Frye)
• death/life, myth/realism, metaphor/ simile
• when we read we become critics (Gaby's blog)
• "I didn't like a movie/ book because..."= critic
• Synedoecha, New York- Film
• TS Eliot: "We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time"
• Genesis: A&E ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil
• intentional lies: first lies?
• Frye believed that fairy tales are transparent
• Werewolf movies:

1. Blood and Chocolate (very bad, read the book)
2. American Werewolf in Paris
3. The Company of Wolves
4. Wolfen
5. Ginger Snaps
6. Teen Wolf
7. Underworld
8. The Howling
9. Dog Soldiers
10. An American Werewolf in London

• getting of literacy is the loss of innocence
• pg 536 of DQ- everyone in part 2 has read part 1, like in Robin Hood Men in Tights when everyone pulls out their script, this is a very post-modern idea of metatheatricality
• ever know a simple but good person who creates catastrophes everywhere?
• continues from myth (romance) to realism (irony)
• Frye says that when you reach the end of a cycle, you start again, you don't go backwards
• innocence: "The innocent world is neither totally alive, like the apocalyptic one, nor mostly dead, like ours: it is an animistic world, full of elemental spirits. All the characters of Comus are elemental spirits except the Lady and her brothers, and the connections of Ariel with air-spirits, of Puck with fire-spirits..., and of Caliban with earth-spirits are clear enough." (pg 153)
• TS Eliot '4 Quartets': Buirnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding
• Alice looks through the keyhole into the rose garden
• The Rose Garden like in Alice, and Beauty and the Beast represents innocence
• courtly love is all idealistic, not physical