Monday, September 20, 2010

September 16, 2010 Class Notes

Everyone is supposed to post a random line from Frazer at the top of every blog. Please start putting visuals on blogs
Parable of Good Samaritan

  • Not confirmation of what is expected
  • the non-expected person helps another
"mysterious mental maneuver"- Sarah's Blog

Jane Eyre
  • Villian
    • redactor P
  • Jane Eyre
    • revolts
    • more into the J writer
      • narrative parts of the Bible 
Northrop Frye's Bible- look @ webpage
  • Inspired by 
    • Milton
    • Blake
Odysseus' Scar
  • Mitchell: READ!
  • literary style of Bible as represented in Genesis 22
  • everything in background in Bible
  • everything in foreground in Homer
    • tells all details
  • Homer vs. Genesis
The Lamb
  • book that fills in gaps of Jesus' childhood
Foreskins
  • hot topic in class 
  • seen as a sort of trophy
  • Hill of foreskins
  • circumscion 
    • sign of covenant between God and Israel
Groom of Blood

Myth
  • "to tell the truth which can not be explained in any other way"
  • highest from of truth
    • mythos=truth
    • history=false
Isaac means to laugh

Blood Meridian
  • McCarthy
  • Sodom/Gomora modernized
  • The City of the Plain
  • Genesis

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