ENGL 3560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mikhail Bakhtin, Alain De Lille
15 Sep 2016
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Farting and jokes imply these important themes: i. ii. iii. trouthe = also means honest, "i will believe in your truth" entente = intent, and choice (can we say what we mean?) When you say something, it matters what your intent is - whether you"re telling the truth or not. Exile from eden, in egypt, from troy, from rome) Exiled from god"s true thoughts - and the author is modeled on god; analogically, we can"t know the author"s thoughts either. In order to "get back" to a sort of eden (paradise) we need to travel a great distance. Pilgrimage was the frame of the canterbury tales. Piety and pilgrimage are associated with the season in which natural impulses are being acted upon (farting, sex) Aristophanes say eros is a way for us to unite out gender-divided soul (eros is a way to overcome exile)
