Friday, March 30, 2012

Notes 3-28

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.

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