Chapter 16 How to Read Literature Like a Professor Prezzi
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How to Read Literature Like a ProfessorBy THOMAS C. FOSTER And Jungian Archetypes
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Foster: Chapter 15 – Flights of Fancy • flying is freedom. • Images of birds, feathers, and flying, all of which, while not referring to literal flying, evoke thoughts of metaphorical flight, of escape. • Indeed, ofttimes in literature the freeing of the spirit is seen in terms of flight. • Similarly, we speak of the soul as taking wing.
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The bird and the Jungian classic of lost souls • The bird is an archetypal symbol of height, of the aspiration for ascension to the accented dimension of the heaven, a constant and universal metaphor for the soul. In most archaic mythologies, migratory birds are incarnations of the soul of the expressionless person who departs for the afterworld.
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The bird and the Jungian archetype of lost souls • Birds have been considered "messengers of gods and all the manifestations of the spirits' power assumed their wings."Birds, wings and flight have all symbolized superior states of being. The connection between birds and the sky made the former be associated with angels and be attributed the angelic or solar language, which is nothing but poetry, a rhythmic language, meant to facilitate immersion into higher mental states. (Luc Benoist)
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The bird or the archetype of lost souls • The bird performs an initiating rite of passage, 1 of breaking through the space between the two worlds.
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The bird or the archetype of lost souls • The bird or the birds around the tree of life create an opening to the Garden of Eden; the connectedness with the afterworld allows the bird to foretell death.
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The bird or the classic of lost souls • On the other hand, "birds symbolize thoughts and intuitions – between people and the soul in that location has always been a symbolic connectedness" (Aniela Jaffé).
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Foster: Affiliate 21 – Marked for Greatness • All characters who are every bit famous for their shape as for their beliefs. Their shapes tell us something, and probably very different somethings, about them or other people in the story. • Deformities project, hide, personal history, overcome Are deformities and scars therefore e'er meaning? Possibly not. Perhaps sometimes a scar is simply a scar, a curt leg or a hunchback merely that. But more often than not physical markings past their very nature telephone call attending to themselves and signify some psychological or thematic bespeak the writer wants to make. Later all, it's easier to introduce characters without imperfections. You give a guy a limp in Chapter 2, he tin't become sprinting afterward the train in Chapter 24. So if a writer brings up a physical trouble or handicap or deficiency, he probably means something by it.
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Foster: Chapter 21 – Marked for Greatness
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Foster: Affiliate 21 – Marked for Greatness
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Foster: Chapter 21 – Marked for Greatness
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Foster: Chapter 21 – Marked for Greatness
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Foster: Chapter 12 – Is That a Symbol? • Here'southward the trouble with symbols: people await them to mean something. Non just any something, merely 1 something in particular. Exactly. Maximum. Information technology doesn't piece of work like that. • In general a symbol can't be reduced to continuing for only one thing. • If information technology tin can, information technology's not symbolism, information technology's allegory.
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Foster: Affiliate 12 – Is That a Symbol? • Allegories have ane mission to attain – convey a sure message, • George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) is pop among many readers precisely because information technology'due south relatively easy to figure out what it all means. Orwell is desperate for us to go the point, not a point. Revolutions inevitably fail, he tells us, because those who come to power are corrupted by information technology and reject the values and principles they initially embraced.
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Foster: Affiliate 12 – Is That a Symbol? • Symbols, though, more often than not don't work so neatly.
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Foster: Chapter 12 – Is That a Symbol? • The more than yous exercise the symbolic imagination, the better and quicker information technology works. We tend to give writers all the credit, but reading is also an event of the imagination; our creativity, our creativity, encounters that of the writer, and in that coming together we puzzle out what she ways, what we understand her to mean, what uses we tin put her writing to. Imagination isn't fantasy. That is to say, nosotros tin't just invent meaning without the author, or if we can, we ought not to hold her to it. Rather, a reader'southward imagination is the human action of one creative intelligence engaging another. • So engage that other artistic intelligence. Heed to your instincts. Pay attending to what y'all feel about the text. It probably ways something.
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