To Be REAL or not to Be Real (Allegorical hands that turn the time)

Dave Williams daveuwilliams at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 6 07:56:45 CDT 2010


From: Phillip Grayson <phillip.grayson at gmail.com>
so, um, why is _The Education_ so much simpler and more accommodating for critics than V.?

Is it? Not an easy compare/contrast here, but if we compare/contrast V. with Adams's _The Education_, and just for good measure, toss in one of Adams's more obscure projects, like _Tahiti, Memoirs of Marau Taaroa_, we might find Adams more difficult and less accommodating. We could do a simple compare and contrast on rhetorical elements; we might use a trasditional tool like the Aristotelian Triad or Burke's Pentad. Both have advantages and disadvantages given the task. A student of Richard McKeon (not me, I'v little more education than Lula) may prefer Aristotle's approach. Of course, Aristotle is not all that popular these days, and as everybody knows Aristotle or knows he was Greek and few seem to know Burke (I can't keep Burke and Burke apart for some reason and so I confuse rhetoric and the sublime...that's why most of my posts are about Romanticism), and since Burke is bigger (Triad vs. Pentad), we should go with Burke. How's that for a sill of
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