Class Notes 2/1/2011

(The Indian Changeling Boy)

Read up on Frye's Argument of Comedy

For the first Exam remember- "Green World" (Dramatists use woods as a sanctuary for renewal. Anyone in Contemporary Lit should notice this convention in House Keeping)

For As You Like It we will be focusing on the consuming myths put forward by Ted Hughes and critiqued by Sexson into the Mythos of "Venus and Adonis" and "The Battle of the Brothers" (a must click).

"We are interested that Shakespeare is dealing with death and Resurrection"

While speaking of moonstruck did anyone notice a woman stealing into the room and taking a coat?

Keep in mind that the Realism of Chechkov is actually writing "stripped" of anything mythic. Ex. The wood imp became Uncle Ivan.

"The Normal Comic resolution is the surrender of the senex (Egues in AMSND, the protagonist of a usually close proximity to the "city" or "society) to the hero. NEVER THE REVERSE."

The Goal in reading humour is that we must overcome it in order to look at what is going on subversively.

Marriage  is symbolized by a fest. The three things always go together- Marriage, Food, Festival. It is the Nature of Comedy.

Keep in Mind Vico's Four Stages a we Continue the Semester.

I.The age of Gods

II. The age of Heroes

III. The age of Men

IV. The age of Chaos
I. The age of Gods

My spin on the Imperial Vor'tress is that once again we have Shakespeare playing around with his infamous Patriarchal Conceit in order to bring the reader to a higher realm of consciousness.

Also, if everything Sexson has been alluding too, and Hughes has been writing are true, the Trojan Prophylactic is probably one of the best marketing jokes. Ever.