Class Notes 3/3

Notes:

Homework, required for the class, August 1st, 2017 in Casper, WY be there to watch the total eclipse!!

Homework, read Helena's blog & do her one better

Annie Dillard, Total Eclipse, written two years after the event

Nick's blog, recollected in tranquility
Kevin's blog, As Kingfishers Catch Fire, greatest title of any poem ever

Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, revisited
Wordsworth is a benign, and one of the most sentimental of poets, but he still includes the dark..."still, sad music of humanity"
We learn something about epiphany...

aesthetic hero...go back in search of things lost but not forgotten....an awakening to recollection, anemnesis (which reminds me of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan)

epiphanic message of literature, "remember me" the Bible, Finnegans Wake, Bhagavad Gita, Hamlet

BLOG about the overlap of your classes

psychoanalysis - go back to when you were a child...

Summer Homework: Proust's novel...Dr. Sexson asks, "Have you got something better to do?" the novel is incredibly boring, we have to do the mysterious mental maneuver to get it....potentially epiphanic.....
Virginia Woolf, also boring......but in the tedium is the epiphanic......like Proust found more than a cup of tea in a cup of tea......

We read through Proust, The Cookie....petite madeleines
secular mystical experience......
final enlightenment

btw.....FINAL PAPER: must be our best piece of work ever! otherwise it will not be accepted.

in the last paragraph of The Cookie, memory never lost, just hiding....
Lisa Little Legs, playing with Katey Crystal in her backyard. Katey wearing a grass skirt and sunflower shirt? Lisa may never have thought of this memory in the day, but Dr. Sexson acted as the agent of remembering.....

art of tea - done aesthetically....(ever seen the flowering teas? tasty and beautiful, but there is more to the art of tea....)

The Letter to Can Grande by Dante, how we read, literally, allegorically, morally, and anagogically (mystical). The last is the highest level of interpretation....

anagogical and Frye

HW blog about Annie Dillard and Total Eclipse