is for Iorek Byrnison.
Jung: depth psychologist
archetypes in all stories:
pg 116-7 of Frye "We have associated archetypes and myths particularly with primitive and popular literature. In fact we could almost define popular literature, admittedly in a rather circular way, as literature which affords an unobstructed view of archetypes. We can find this quality on every level of literature: in fairy tales and folk tales, in Shakespeare (in most of the comedies), in the Bible (which would still be a popular book if it were not a sacred one), in Bunyan, in Richardson, in Dickens, in Poe, and of course in a vast amount of ephemeral rubbish as well. We began this book by remarking that we cannot correlate popularity and value. But there is still the danger of reduction, or assuming that literature is essentially primitive and popular. This view had a great vogue in the nineteenth century, and is by no means dead yet, but if we were to adopt it we should cut off a third and most important source of supply for archetypal criticism."
trashy lit:
ephemeral rubbish: - an obstructed view of the myth
- they are really important to high modernism (literature)
- archetypes are all clear even in these low-class books
- in the world of FTs
19th C Romantics thought that high literature wasn't the only lit:
- popular lit
- written lit
- oral lit
archetype: manifestation of these constant/reoccurring themes that are found in all humankind
tabula rasa: 'blank slate' theory
'Ode on Intimations of Immortality' W. Wordsworth
'education isn't telling people what they don't know, it's reminding them of what they do know'
the definition of reading is 'reading in'
Obituaries are about death, or language
The Smothers Brothers 'Santa Claus is dead'
'Are we reading the times or the eternities?' ~Thoreau
Hippolytus ~Euripides
clique is a filler
'la la land'~ dream world REM sleep
DREAMS: take reality and make it real
sparagmos: the ripping and shredding of human flesh
constellations: ursa major and minor (big and little dipper)- callista (from the name Callisto)
literal to anagogical: level of thought for reading into it N.Frye
Groundhogs Day- based on an Asian philosophy- return come back to the same thing eternally until we get it right
Bowing is a sign of infinite respect- to recognize the divine
The fall of Humpty Dumpty represents all falls:
- Adam and Eve
- Wall street
- Troy
- etc
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