Blog: Become the opposite of naive and get super sophisticated about romance. Read 3 pages of Frye and reread...then write about it.
Read Daphnis and Chloe by Wednesday.
February 27: displaced fairytale presentations
Additional readings we talked about:
A.S. Byatt, On Histories and Stories
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
The Conference of the Birds
Ada by Vladamir Nabokov
(pg 73) Haroun: "chessboard...a single window, out of which gazed a princess" (of course! the elementary and crude elements of romance)
Nora Roberts--people like to read romance novels, look at bestsellers list
Why is the preservation/possession of virginity so important in romance?
(pg 27) Ephesian Tale: "Habrocomes said that he..." A summary--indication of a sentimental (literary) romance in the spirit of the oral tradition. All of us a bit ADD. Storytelling devices attempt to combat this.
Ephesian Tales to Daphnis and Chloe...moving up the rungs of the ladder. Compare beginnings: Ephesian is right into the action while Daphnis is more literary, becoming sophisticated
(pg 137) Daphnis: "The painting showed women..." the conventions of a romance
Ekphrasis: encountering in a work of literature a reference to a work of art (describe in detail the painting on the wall)
One of the conventions of romance: imagining innocence, abandoned children--the changeling, the foundling.
The Blue Lagoon: a movie about two kids shipwrecked on an island and "their weird little love story" --Jill
The Conference of the Birds is very simple and childlike...very similar to Haroun and the Sea of Stories (the king that they seek is in all of them and is all of them)
To the naive person, the world is continuously wonderful.
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