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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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