Sept. 28th
allusion to poem in 5 rooms. The poem is in the course reader.
Read and see the correlation.
Something to explain.... but more something to learn from.
Patterns Constellations
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Wolfgang Iser
> Temporalities
Femininity/identity/body/discourse
>body style discourse:
generic/specific
iterative/singulative
Rules of Thumb (RoT):
-instructions
-formulaic
-irony > believable? serious?
expression, intention
look up irony and know the concept inside and out and be capable of explaining the variety.
says/means
-comparable with 1st story
On Looking Further into the Bodies of Men:
-guide to male body
-guide to behaviour
How to Write a Serious Novel About Love:
-guide to writing
How Deep is the River?:
-word problem
A Matter of Perspective:
-perspective
Overarching Umbrella
reason/emotion
Count your Blessings (a fairy tale):
Grace > elegance/humility/enlightenment; wisdom/mercy
humility: virtue
wisdom: divine communication
mercy: minimal hardship > luck; charmed life
presents idealization . demystifies?
Happiness Sadness
husband changeless > look into Anne Sexton's poem "Cinderella"
house static/unlike Grace
kids nameless malaise? > look into the book the feminine mystique
beauty
dog
antiques
money
^Formatted Desire
Grace Helen
known mysterious
no depth assumed depth
remove heart > male Doctor > ascend heaven > remove desire/individuality
Hysteria: a psychological malady that finds show in the body
Womb Madness: it's your uterus that driving you crazy
Innocent Objects comparison
> emphasis on material things
> antiques
> happy/not happy; happy versus not not unhappy
> isolate like Grace
> desire > limited
Desire: free-floating
transient
independent of objects
pursuit of completion
begins where wants end
MIDTEM
key terms: section one
discourse, anti-empiricism, etc.
essay question: section two
a few to choose from; theme based
close analysis of a passage:
presented with a passage we've read
write about it
Innocent Objects:
-mysterious neighbours
-objects important
-antiques
-privates/isolated
-rich
previously owned object infatuation:
objects that are highlighted in text
> have a story/history
mediate a disconnected interaction between people
acquisition/theft creates a relationship
presence and/or absence > previously owned
a means to sharing experiences
communal
representational ties
theft > comparable to Helen?
> creates relationship
> intimacy > direct/indirect
> they like tea, gardening, preserves
> laughable
> violation
> event creator > Frederick
the theft doubles as a trade
> photo album . notebook > negation and symbol of absence of....
{aside}manless
>biography collection
identity is unclear
is Helen unaware of herself or is there no one there to know?
presence/absence
multiplicity
names:
first name: formal
last name: informal
true name: intimate
physical need psychological need desires
need to live identity through things/in things
externally projected identity
{image of stickman} {image of stickman}
arrows pointing outward arrows pointing inward
generic
specific/individual
