V Group Read - tentative schedule

Heikki Raudaskoski hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
Thu Jun 3 15:37:11 CDT 2010


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EotNv1Tsa_Q

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Alex Colter wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:01 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > what matters is that these two works and several others published
> > between 1960 and 1965, and several non fiction texts, films, works of
> > art,  all focus on a mechanical bride, one that can be traced through
> > McLuhan and back to Fitzgerald's Myrtle (Gatsby) and Adams's Dynamo &
> > Virgin.
> >
>
> Very interesting, I shall look into McLuhan. The image of a mechanical bride
> evokes in me Hart Crane's poem "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helena",
>
> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172020
>



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