September 14, 2010 Class Notes

Groups*
 Mountain 1: Roberto, Kaleb, Bobby, Ben, Angel, Zach S. Mayan
 Garden 1: Kinsey, Aronda, Alexa, Alicia, Spencer, Lisa
 Cave: Julia, George, Nate, Cameron, Laura, Tyler
 Furnace: John Serto, Emily, Katrina, Katelyn, John Orsie, Brittani
 Mountain 2: Jennifer, Rachel, Katie, Debra, Justin, Russel, Leanne
 Garden 2: Ashley, Kyle Crawford, Dan Goodman, Sara, Trish, Zach, Sam
*Sorry if I did not get someone's name or misspelled someone's name!

Frye-
 Themes of ascent-

•      Mountain/Garden
• Going Up
• Example: Jacob's ladders

Themes of descent

• Cave/Furnace
• underworld

Story of Martha and Mary: Needful things: "Only 1 thing is needed"

Falkner: Absolon Absolon

Intertexuality

• Ecclesiastics
• Hemmingway
• Isaiah 63 & Revelation 14:17
• Origins of Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
• "Do to the enemy as we do to the grapes"
• influenced by Julia   Battle Hymn of the Republic

Infinity of Lists

• Umberto Eco
• lists of everything
• literary imagination drawn towards lists b/c rhythm, incantation, chanting, mantra

Need to know:

•  God
• Adam & Eve
• Serpent
• Cain
• Grain
• J-writer
• Able
• Sheep
• J-writer
• Lamick
• P-writer