MDDM Ch. 70 Prolegomena

[Otto]

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From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: MDDM Ch. 70 Prolegomena


>
> Putting aside all this postmodern jargon we 
> could turn to a genre study
> to make sense of why P compounds so. 
> 
> 
>    
>   1) Carnival
>   2) quest-motif serves to test philosophical truths
>   3) the trilevelled construction of "earth," a "nether world"
>   and an "olympus" 
>   4) dissolution or merging of identities, in particular, the
>   motif of the double.
>   5) extraordinary freedom of philosophical invention within
>   the plot
>   6) combination of free fantasy, symbolism and --on
>   occasion--the mystical religious element with the crude
>   naturalism of low life
>   7) the concern with ultimate philosophical positions
>   8) the experimental fantasticality in the handling of
>   perspective which can imperceptibly shift from ant's to
>   bird's view
>   9) eccentric or scandalous behaviour--spectacular
>   stomach-turning passages
>   10) utopian--or, to be more accurate, dystopian--elements of
>   the quest motif
>   11) the juxtaposition of items normally distant, often in
>   oxymoronic combinations
>   12) the parody of various genres and the mixture of prose
>   and verse diction
>   13) the variety of styles
>   15) topicality and publicistic quality--WWII novel that
>   illustrates ideological issues of the 1960s

How?

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