The Last of the Notations
Sacrifice- "fic"= make, "sacri"= sacred
heirogamy- "gam"= marriage, "heir"=sacred
"To look into the light is the sweetest thing for a mortal; what lies beneath the earth is nothingness." - Iphigenia, pg. 109
Homeopathy
"Anima"- spirit, soul
Everything is myth displaced
"mimesis"- imitation
"lacunae"- a gap or hole in the text
The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye
sparagmos- ripping/tearing of live flesh
women=social term; female=biological term
So, some extra thoughts- I really like the phrase "the educated imagination." I was looking up some quotes from that book and found one that pretty much sums up the whole idea, for me at least: "There are two halves to literary experience…imagination gives us both a better and a worse world than the one we usually live with, and demands that we keep looking steadily at them both." Imagination and education are both so important to have TOGETHER. I'm pretty much a fan of the theory that neither is much use on its own. You have to have the imagination to see all of the amazing possibilities that there are, but along with that, you have to have an idea about how to accomplish those things.
heirogamy- "gam"= marriage, "heir"=sacred
"To look into the light is the sweetest thing for a mortal; what lies beneath the earth is nothingness." - Iphigenia, pg. 109
Homeopathy
"Anima"- spirit, soul
Everything is myth displaced
"mimesis"- imitation
"lacunae"- a gap or hole in the text
The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye
sparagmos- ripping/tearing of live flesh
women=social term; female=biological term
So, some extra thoughts- I really like the phrase "the educated imagination." I was looking up some quotes from that book and found one that pretty much sums up the whole idea, for me at least: "There are two halves to literary experience…imagination gives us both a better and a worse world than the one we usually live with, and demands that we keep looking steadily at them both." Imagination and education are both so important to have TOGETHER. I'm pretty much a fan of the theory that neither is much use on its own. You have to have the imagination to see all of the amazing possibilities that there are, but along with that, you have to have an idea about how to accomplish those things.
posted by Danielle : ) at 9:37 PM
1 Comments:
well this is not junk like the other 2 comments
was interesting blog, I will link ASAP
also liked reading call of the wild and lord of rings fan
also agree imagination is what makes something worthwhile, without it would not be great place to be, would be like 1984
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