Second Class

Sept 21

Forms of Devotion (FoD):

-emblems (allegorical & didactic); virtues

didactic: used to teach

allegories: embody abstractions

Quarles >> produces emblematic imagery

FoD emblems > historically remote > temporal disjunction

image/illustration & caption/explanation

Nothram Fry

reversal of caption and textual explanation.

how does this switch change things?

FoD lacks a plot and therefore lack tension/climax/resolution....

....but there is tension between

text/image

faithful/fatihless

faithful:

vocation?

naive/moral luck?

"keeping your conscious clean, because you've never had to make any difficult decisions."

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

(narrations assumes you know nothing)

Interpolation:

act or phenomenon that forces one to position oneself in relation to it.

narrator is neither faithful or faithless

so is there an alternative to the two, or what is the placement along the lines of extremes.

generic groups or types

examples in the story are very specific and detailed but presented as if general

5 Small Rooms (5SR):

self-representation via objects

extended figuration > metaphor (bringing things far away close together)

Conceit

Pears/Seashells/Cats/Moth/Clocks

Pears > organic, taste, living, eaten

Seashells > sound, temporality, living, trace of living thing, skeleton

Cats > traces of mice, development, atavism, murder

Moth > transformation, burn/suicide

Clocks > direct technological rep. of time, deathless

rooms

TS Eliot

narrator

paired

perhaps the time is assigned a masculine state and it was time that she was unable to kill

yonic symbols

double entendre

The First Four Stories Compared

closure

pattern & interruption

iterative . singulative

summary . scene

sameness/generality . difference/specifity

Body Language:

good days/bad days

-iterative

-binary

physiology > body, symptoms

-nameless

specific individual body

anatomical ideal/generic body

erotic body

medical body

emotion body

body/self > are/have/inhabit

where one locates identity in the body

do you love the body or the person is the person the body and so on and so forth?