The Adventure and Love aspects--two integral components of Romance.
Jessica presents the language of "A Clockwork Orange" to the class. Read it!!!
Anthony Burgess wrote on James Joyce and Shakespeare.
Proust and Dickens--The Arabian Nights is a necessary education in romance.
--comes from the naive aspect of literature
--is located in our own psyche--no specific land
Sheherazade is the most motivated storyteller because her very life depends on it.
"Fiction in the Archives"
Jinn--we get the word genie
Stories of relations with nature--those are the worlds that create charmed states--plants
Vladamir Nabokov and his place of ecstasy: to be among butterflies and their food plants.
Fold one side of the magic carpet on the other and observe the pattern...
Remove the barrier that prevents him from communicating with the light holy winged creatures (angels, genies) floating around the head of the magician.
Oranda and her blog--by getting rid of demand to like the story, enjoys it--with laughter.
Frye (pg 129) expression of laughter--it is a game.
Finnigans Wake--jokes and puns surround the reader
The story that Sheherazade is SPINNING.
Qamar al-Zaman must learn to laugh.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Notes 3-26
Read Jill's blog
Summary of first half of Qamar Al-Zaman and His Two Sons
Like Sherazade who wants to live another day, Princess Budhir wants the story to go on so she deceives her husband.
She has the power of the story, so she has power over her husband.
Puts the husband through an educational lesson
Look at Milkshake Butterfly blog--feminist summary of Qamar Al-Zaman and His Two Sons
No coincidence is too improbable
To deceive people into the truth (Budhir as man proposing sex through gay poetry).
The importance of the moment of laughter--we'll talk about next time.
Summary of first half of Qamar Al-Zaman and His Two Sons
Like Sherazade who wants to live another day, Princess Budhir wants the story to go on so she deceives her husband.
She has the power of the story, so she has power over her husband.
Puts the husband through an educational lesson
Look at Milkshake Butterfly blog--feminist summary of Qamar Al-Zaman and His Two Sons
No coincidence is too improbable
To deceive people into the truth (Budhir as man proposing sex through gay poetry).
The importance of the moment of laughter--we'll talk about next time.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Notes 3-23
Read Jill's blog
Please blog about The Story of Qamar al-Zaman and His Two Sons for next class meeting.
Image of a whole circle, two halves of a circle, and a circle with perforated edges: to recreate the world of whole beginnings through imagination.
The middle shape (two halves) is the adventure with the "ripped" part embodying the quest.
The lunatic poet of Kubla Khan (Beware, beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair) and his message: listen to me.
Chapter 5 in Frye is all about the relationship of twins (Qamar and his beloved's twin-like appearance?)
(pg 104) The King and the Corpse
The triple goddess
He was not historical, but everything he did was TRUE.
Arthur is not dead--he lives because we have imagined him.
Please blog about The Story of Qamar al-Zaman and His Two Sons for next class meeting.
Image of a whole circle, two halves of a circle, and a circle with perforated edges: to recreate the world of whole beginnings through imagination.
The middle shape (two halves) is the adventure with the "ripped" part embodying the quest.
The lunatic poet of Kubla Khan (Beware, beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair) and his message: listen to me.
Chapter 5 in Frye is all about the relationship of twins (Qamar and his beloved's twin-like appearance?)
(pg 104) The King and the Corpse
The triple goddess
He was not historical, but everything he did was TRUE.
Arthur is not dead--he lives because we have imagined him.
Notes 3-21
Please see Zach, Charity, Kenny, and Alexandra's blogs
Romances must have something to do with love and adventure.
Romance foregrounds the story itself.
The moral of the story is the story itself--there is no moral.
Individuation--bringing opposites together
Kubla Khan's dulcimer--reminiscent of a woman's shape
Kubla discovers his power through imagination--we shift our focus from the divine creator to the human creator: the creative artist
The creative artist (Beware, beware! his flashing eyes, his floating hair) is regarded as marginal by society yet is central in romance.
Museum--the place of the muses.
The Fisher King--wounded in the groin--lance.
Knights at the Round Table search for the Holy Grail: the cup at the Last Supper or the cup that held the blood of Christ at the Crucifixion.
Lance and grail (bowl)--male and female--identity, integrated unit, the alchemical uniting of opposites
Parody and Irony
In the literature of satire, irony is making fun in order to learn a lesson while parody is making fun in order to play a game.
(pg 135) King and the Corpse: Because they read a romance, they were confined to the second circle of hell as carnal lovers, ruined by romance.
Romances must have something to do with love and adventure.
Romance foregrounds the story itself.
The moral of the story is the story itself--there is no moral.
Individuation--bringing opposites together
Kubla Khan's dulcimer--reminiscent of a woman's shape
Kubla discovers his power through imagination--we shift our focus from the divine creator to the human creator: the creative artist
The creative artist (Beware, beware! his flashing eyes, his floating hair) is regarded as marginal by society yet is central in romance.
Museum--the place of the muses.
The Fisher King--wounded in the groin--lance.
Knights at the Round Table search for the Holy Grail: the cup at the Last Supper or the cup that held the blood of Christ at the Crucifixion.
Lance and grail (bowl)--male and female--identity, integrated unit, the alchemical uniting of opposites
Parody and Irony
In the literature of satire, irony is making fun in order to learn a lesson while parody is making fun in order to play a game.
(pg 135) King and the Corpse: Because they read a romance, they were confined to the second circle of hell as carnal lovers, ruined by romance.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Notes 3-19
By April 4, please have thesis statement ready for final paper.
Be fearless in your blogs--over reach yourself. Most importantly: be truthful.
Romance insists that the magician renounces his magic
Merlin: in T.H. White's The Once and Future King retelling Knights of the Round Table, later represented in The Sword and the Stone, Camelot (the musical)
People who read high brow literature are more likely to read low brow but the opposite is not true.
Qamar al Zaman and 2 Sons contains the elements of the perfect romance
Start the ascent--everything that rises must converge in identity
The preserver, destroyer, and sustainer.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be experienced.
Maybe the moral of the story is that the meaning cannot be reduced to one line.
King and the Corpse 23: Zimmer trying to define romance.
Frye 130: laughter and the Eleusiaian mysteries
laughter must be included in our list of romance peripherals--it is a part of the ascent, a liberating kind of thing. It detaches you from the seriousness of life.
Be fearless in your blogs--over reach yourself. Most importantly: be truthful.
Romance insists that the magician renounces his magic
Merlin: in T.H. White's The Once and Future King retelling Knights of the Round Table, later represented in The Sword and the Stone, Camelot (the musical)
People who read high brow literature are more likely to read low brow but the opposite is not true.
Qamar al Zaman and 2 Sons contains the elements of the perfect romance
Start the ascent--everything that rises must converge in identity
The preserver, destroyer, and sustainer.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be experienced.
Maybe the moral of the story is that the meaning cannot be reduced to one line.
King and the Corpse 23: Zimmer trying to define romance.
Frye 130: laughter and the Eleusiaian mysteries
laughter must be included in our list of romance peripherals--it is a part of the ascent, a liberating kind of thing. It detaches you from the seriousness of life.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Notes 3-7
Blog option for next class: explicate Kubla Khan and show how it contains all elements of romance.
"Engine Summer"--there are no stories in the future--you become transparent when you tell a story
See/hear the call of adventure--comes in insignificant way
How do you get to the bottom of the bottom? And why?
Individuation--the darkest part of the process by which person becomes his/her true self
The function of the rose in romance
The Frog Prince--not heeding the call of adventure--in the world of stories and oral tradition, if you speak it, it is true--the verbal contract
Anima--the feminine part of man's personality (animus--masculine part of female)
You are in an enchanted realm--the world of mythology is all around you.
Read Gustaff Flaubert "The Legend of St. Julius the Hospitaller"
"Engine Summer"--there are no stories in the future--you become transparent when you tell a story
See/hear the call of adventure--comes in insignificant way
How do you get to the bottom of the bottom? And why?
Individuation--the darkest part of the process by which person becomes his/her true self
The function of the rose in romance
The Frog Prince--not heeding the call of adventure--in the world of stories and oral tradition, if you speak it, it is true--the verbal contract
Anima--the feminine part of man's personality (animus--masculine part of female)
You are in an enchanted realm--the world of mythology is all around you.
Read Gustaff Flaubert "The Legend of St. Julius the Hospitaller"
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Notes 3-5
Necessity of getting to bottom of bottom--Frye.
Confront aspect of self that is not yourself--coming to terms with the opposite in order to make individuation possible.
Element of a perfect romance to add to the list: STORY.
exegesis: the critical interpretation or explanation of a text
Please see Rio's blog for link to Northrup Frye's Theory of Archetypes
tricky slave--a stock character--clever, lower class person who brings about the happy ending of a comedy for lovers.
Eiron--self deprecating character, old wise man who affects actions
Alazon--enemy--horrible monster that represent different ideas of Satan
Fisher King--wounded in the groin--land cannot reproduce--wasteland. The epidemic/plague--land cannot produce, the economy fails.
Miles Gloriosus--the braggart solider
Women already know answer to riddle, men have to be taught.
The less powerful understands more than the more powerful (then the ego controlled people)
Sir Gaiwan=Wife of Bath
You must have conflicts for stories to work
Confront aspect of self that is not yourself--coming to terms with the opposite in order to make individuation possible.
Element of a perfect romance to add to the list: STORY.
exegesis: the critical interpretation or explanation of a text
Please see Rio's blog for link to Northrup Frye's Theory of Archetypes
tricky slave--a stock character--clever, lower class person who brings about the happy ending of a comedy for lovers.
Eiron--self deprecating character, old wise man who affects actions
Alazon--enemy--horrible monster that represent different ideas of Satan
Fisher King--wounded in the groin--land cannot reproduce--wasteland. The epidemic/plague--land cannot produce, the economy fails.
Miles Gloriosus--the braggart solider
Women already know answer to riddle, men have to be taught.
The less powerful understands more than the more powerful (then the ego controlled people)
Sir Gaiwan=Wife of Bath
You must have conflicts for stories to work
Notes 2-27
Please change your homepage to "Arts and Letter"
Anything that you read that appeals to realism is displaced--be shrewd
Realism is reductionistic.
"Little, Big" by John Crowley--the farther in you go, the bigger it gets.
"In Search of Lost Time" by Proust
"Read not the Times, but the Eternities"--Thoreau
hermeneutic--concerning interpretation esp of Bible and literary texts
Reading into the text? Yes, it's the only thing we can do when reading a book.
Dreams--unconscious filters dreams from raw, disturbing form--shelters the conscious mind.
Is all literature romantic?
Please read "The Last Great Bastion of Underground Writing" by Maria Bastillos
Romance novels would be at the top of the bestsellers list.
Frye--descent is everything in literature
Pirates--euphemism fro rapists--pillage and rob a place using violence, esp in wartime.
In the descent, you can become animal--worst thing that can happen. In Daphnis and Chloe, act like animals that raised them--but beautiful, sweet.
Normally, man is the subject, women the other. But in romance, the roles are reversed.
"The underlying philosophy of the novel is that love is omnipotent. It is the point of life. It is the solution of all problems, and it is peculiarly feminine. Men have to be taught how to love: women are born with the innate ability to love"
Our romance is much lighter compared to the bodice rippers of the 1920s.
Death happens in romance, but not so in comedy--only want change in social status through love of another.
Anything that you read that appeals to realism is displaced--be shrewd
Realism is reductionistic.
"Little, Big" by John Crowley--the farther in you go, the bigger it gets.
"In Search of Lost Time" by Proust
"Read not the Times, but the Eternities"--Thoreau
hermeneutic--concerning interpretation esp of Bible and literary texts
Reading into the text? Yes, it's the only thing we can do when reading a book.
Dreams--unconscious filters dreams from raw, disturbing form--shelters the conscious mind.
Is all literature romantic?
Please read "The Last Great Bastion of Underground Writing" by Maria Bastillos
Romance novels would be at the top of the bestsellers list.
Frye--descent is everything in literature
Pirates--euphemism fro rapists--pillage and rob a place using violence, esp in wartime.
In the descent, you can become animal--worst thing that can happen. In Daphnis and Chloe, act like animals that raised them--but beautiful, sweet.
Normally, man is the subject, women the other. But in romance, the roles are reversed.
"The underlying philosophy of the novel is that love is omnipotent. It is the point of life. It is the solution of all problems, and it is peculiarly feminine. Men have to be taught how to love: women are born with the innate ability to love"
Our romance is much lighter compared to the bodice rippers of the 1920s.
Death happens in romance, but not so in comedy--only want change in social status through love of another.
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