Third Class

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