ENGL 1F97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Roy Cohn, Walter Benjamin, Mythic Journeys

• School: Brock University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1F97
• Professor: Susan Spearey

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Nostalgia in the face of loss: o(cid:374)e respo(cid:374)se to (cid:272)risis is to retur(cid:374) to (cid:862)golde(cid:374) past(cid:863, source of identity and value located in the past (cid:862)(cid:373)ake a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a great agai(cid:374)(cid:863) Salvation in future: another response is to look to the future for redemption or salvation, prophecy, postponed rewards, be(cid:374)ja(cid:373)i(cid:374)"s (cid:374)otio(cid:374) of rede(cid:373)ptio(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)es (cid:862)(cid:449)eak (cid:373)essia(cid:374)i(cid:272) po(cid:449)er(cid:863) responsibility to the dead; angel (cid:449)a(cid:374)ts to (cid:862)fi(cid:454) (cid:449)hat is (cid:271)roke(cid:374)(cid:863) Where"s the re(cid:272)o(cid:448)er(cid:455): not looking for grand moments of recovery. Looking for small and painstaking efforts of recovery. Locates values in the past, in heroic images. Opening scenes: ho(cid:449) does the ra(cid:271)(cid:271)i"s (cid:373)e(cid:373)orial of arah iro(cid:374)so(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)pare to the ope(cid:374)i(cid:374)g s(cid:272)e(cid:374)e i(cid:374) part 2 narrated by aleksii, the oldest living bolshevik. Names: antedilluvan: of or belonging to the time before the biblical flood; outdated, outmoded, old- fashioned, etc, prelapsarian: characteristic of the time before the fall of man; innocent and unspoiled, suggestion of outdatedness and idealism.