English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Scholar Gipsy, Dover Beach, Bodymind
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All that"s solid melts into air - karl marx. The strange disease of modern life - refers to the problems with modernity. Dealt with psychosomatic problems w body/mind caused by modernity. Started when people designed nature based areas close to cities when people could go to escape from modernity (refreshment, revitalization) revitalized ; elevated senses. Journey - takes one out of modernity and returns them w a higher level of conciousness. Medicine for the mind - book/short stories (part of therapeutic culture) Change in momentum - modernity came to a pause. Originally called the miracle - parable of redemption/salvation. Deals with the religion of love - deeply religious at heart. Laying of the hand - priests/jesus performed miracles with the laying of the hands. Lawrence was not a christian but was passionately religious about love. Appropriated christianity - your ideas resonate/magnify if related to religion. Believed human love can enter lives/transform them in a miraculous way.