Class Notes 3/5

Vico ------- Dante -------Frye ------Language
Gods ------Anagogic-----Anagogic---hieroglyphic---indivisible unity
Heroes------Moral--------Mythical---aristocratic----archetype
Men-------Allegorical----Formal-----pragmatic-----image
Chaos------Literal-------Literal------demotic-------sign


Frye 121
microcosom of all literature united in infinite symbol
123, the point of epiphany: a mountain top(Kevin), an island(The Tempest), the tower(rest of the world chopped away), the lighthouse(To the Lighthouse), the ladder(Jacobs ladder, The Dead)


no language that isn't poetry
fiction and nonfiction are created


Corona, been around since 1979
the corona......suggesting that interesting things happen on the edge

Essay, William Thompson, myth......made up, myth....where we are....where we are going...what we are...

myth is the history of the soul....performance of reality it seeks to describe...experience of illumination...

Over the weekend we were supposed to read To The Lighthouse.....blog passages that are epiphanic.....read on archetypal, anagogical, mystical, and mythical level...

Total Eclipse, Annie Dillard....reactions...see Abby and Kari's blogs....

Nick's blog, very articulate must read

also read Helena's blog

Montana Death Trip - Dr. Sexson
gift of death, gives us the gift of seeing things as they really are, as if for the first time...

Dillard, working her way up in recollection

Dr. Sexson's experience at the Museum of the Rockies 1979 solar eclipse, about 200 people there...Shaman Woodenlegs, large cloud started to move to cover the eclipse & parked itself over the sun, the Shaman was saying some words, and looked at the cloud...then the cloud parted in the middle to allow viewing of the elclipse......then....totality....