ENG328Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Supersaturation
Portrait of the Artist (Cont.)
Part of the fear is that any of this could happen to us
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Moral and political impacts of tragedy
Tragedy transforms sacrifice into civic unity
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The tragic is not the accidental
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The motion in emotion
Dramatic emotions can never be static
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Something anaesthetic about Stephen's notion of the aesthetic
Everything is static rather than dynamic
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Pg. 231
When you've apprehended the basket as a thing, you see that it is that
thing which it is and no other thing
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The "what-ness" of a thing
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Ethical form - image in immediate relation to itself
Epic is also monological
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Portrait of the Artist is a lot more heteroglot as would first appear
Not as monological as you may think
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Different characters contribute but they're not entities within
themselves
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Notion of aesthetic distance
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Villanelle has some mastery over a very difficult form
Prose that he admires in the passions of his youth
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Ends with a dialogue with Cranley
Cranley is granted philosophical legitimacy
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It is a curious thing how your mind is super-saturated with the religion
you say you disbelieve
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Always a residue of the belief system you grew up with
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Mind receives thousands of impressions, some of which are significant and
some of which are not
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Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Time and nature as the twin destroyers of human life
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Lecture 22
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
1:11 PM
Document Summary
Part of the fear is that any of this could happen to us. Something anaesthetic about stephen"s notion of the aesthetic. When you"ve apprehended the basket as a thing, you see that it is that thing which it is and no other thing. Ethical form - image in immediate relation to itself. Portrait of the artist is a lot more heteroglot as would first appear. Different characters contribute but they"re not entities within themselves. Villanelle has some mastery over a very difficult form. Prose that he admires in the passions of his youth. It is a curious thing how your mind is super-saturated with the religion you say you disbelieve. Always a residue of the belief system you grew up with. Mind receives thousands of impressions, some of which are significant and some of which are not.
