Are you the guy on the 'poetry list' that accused me of being sensitive?
I think that is funny and more ironic than your current cry.
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:52 PM, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "oh blow it out your ass, Howard."
> -- from Blazing Saddles.
>
> (originally attributed to a quote from Nietszche, but I feel it applies
> here
> also, in a half-ironic sense)
>
> KS
>
> ps.: "... then the Iliad wouldn't mean what it does" is one of the most
> comical super-academic phrases I've heard in a while.
>
> 2009/8/9 Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > I thought Aristotle explained all this in the Poetics, and his
> > explanation was revived by the New Critics, and so far as I can see is
> > still valid. Poetry is a mimesis of a praxis. Narrative is part of
> > the mimesis, not part of the praxis, so what we call the narrative is
> > not what really happens in the work.
> >
> > The praxis of the Iliad, for instance, is the process of a man
> > learning to accept that there's no justice for him because he's human.
> > The narrative of "the anger of Achilles" is part of the mimesis which
> > is the expressive vehicle of that praxis; if it were what the Iliad is
> > about, what happens in it, then the Iliad wouldn't mean what it does.
> >
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> >
> > Jon Corelis http://jcorelis.googlepages.com/joncorelis
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