September 21, 2010 Class Notes

Everyone is to blog in response to someone else's blog. Choose a blog that makes you think in a different way or from a new point of view. 
Class Notetakers: Kate, Jennifer, Myan, Ashley

Frye: page 121: Alexa's Blog

• most important part of book
• polysemis
• many meanings
• inspired by Dante
• Variety of different levels of literature
• Descriptive:  lowest level
• example given: reporters
• Rhetorical: higher
• language
• Poetic/Metaphoric
• Charismatic
• Bible
• Loss & regaining of identity
• U-shaped Curve
• Center of biblical narrative
• lost & found

Frye: page 149

• Displacement
• Condensation
• "All lit is displaced myth!" Sentence to know from Frye
• readers' job is to un-displace it

Spencer's Blog

• P-attitude
• rules & regulations
• want to know how to live
• geneology, rituals, rules
• J-attitude
• story
• morals are complicated
• example: Joseph and his Brothers
• Moral of story is the story
• Finding moral compromises integrity of story
• moral 
• is not detachable from story
• is ambiguous
• is experienced by the experience of reading

Constitution is the American secular gospel

Hidden Book in Bible by Eliot Friedman

• leaves only J-writer
• grey pages- J writer
• white pages- commentary
• says the J-writer writes until Samuel

Raiders of lost Ark: Biblical commentary on Ark of Covenant

Book of Enoch

• not included in the Bible
• apocryphal but not part of the accepted apocrypha
• According to book
• Enoch went to Heaven
• based on 1 line in the Bible
• "He walked with God" Genesis 5:24
• Also talks about Rebel Angels falling to Earth and having children with humans
• creating giants
• taken out of Genesis 6
• Milton did the same thing in Paradise Lost

Isaiah: Morning Star

• Lilith
• Sucubus=Eve

Redactors: editors of the Bible

Harold Bloom: The Book J

• commentary
• J does not go further than Deuteronomy

Room: Emma Donoghue

• room becomes sacred
• forbidden fruit

Etiology

• explanation of how things got to be the way they are
• examples
• Rainbow as a covenant tells why rainbows exist
• Tower of Babel explains why people speak different languages

Finnigan's Wake is inspired by Isaac

Russell's Blog

• Oral tradition
• when something is spoken it can never be retracted

Joshua and Jesus: pronounced the same just spelled differently

Bible can be seen as a book of military strategy

Judges

• Levites' concubine
• Story of Jeptha
• Inspired Hamlet

Ruth

• Sweet stories
• benign
• wedding ceremonies
• last lines lead into 1 Samuel

1 Samuel

• Election of Saul as King
• Replaced by David as King