ENGB31 Lecture Notes - Phantastes, Fairy, Fraxinus
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Late c18th: unhealthy feminine romance vs. the novel. The farmer: the very voice, kind and jovial, seemed to disrobe the room of the strange look all new places wear to disenchant it out of the realm of the ideal into that of the actual p52. The marble lady (ch. 5: lack, narcissistic projection, possessiveness, the alder maiden. P44 it was so real that i forgot that i was in faery land . Enprisonned in his physical senses, not in the ideal of the fantastical world of faery land. Her tale at every turn and every pause, somehow or other dixed my eyes and thoughts upon her extreme beauty [ ]. It looked like an open coffin set up on one end; only that the part for the head and neck was defined from the shoulder- part. In fact it was a rough representation of the human frame, oonly hollow, as if made of decaying bark torn from a tree.
