Was Paul M's Eagleton tidbit on THE UNCONSCIOUS
Bekah
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Thu Oct 18 19:15:18 CDT 2012
Okay already - 'twill be here Saturday.
Bekah
On Oct 18, 2012, at 4:08 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> In _How Fiction Works_ , in the chapter, "A Brief History of
> Consciosness", Wood examines, first, the OT Story of David, then
> Macbeth, and then Raskalnikov. It is worth reading. It is worth
> reading.
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>> The Eagleton book is The Event of Literature. The chapter I was discussing
>> is entitled Stategy, which according to Eagleton comes from Burke, who saw
>> human communication as a form of action. Dramatism.
>>
>> On Mark's comments, for me the sure sign of real literature is originality.
>> The presentation of non conventional values is ipso facto originality.
>> Values can be expressed in a million ways. Where does this expression come
>> from--from the writer's unconscious. More generally from all that is hidden
>> from normal view. Nothing is new under the sun. But much is hidden.
>>
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