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  1. Feb 2019
    1. Whatwork’s,mycountrymen,inhand?WheregoyouWithbatsandclubs?Thematter,speak,Iprayyou

      M speaks angrily in Moshinsky's film. Doesn'tfit with M as eloquent patrician who treats the people well while looking down on them privately

    2. h’otherinstrumentsDidseeandhear,devise,instruct,walk,feel,85And,mutuallyparticipate,didministerUntotheappetiteandaffectioncommonOfthewholebody

      The implication is that the stomach (the patricians) does none of these. Not seeing, hearing, ... feeling mutually participating?

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    1. as Menenius dubs the first citizen"great toe,"one o'th' lowest, basest, poor- est," and"ras

      maybe M turns to insult because first citizen can meet him on his own terms in terms of rhetoric so M turns to metaphor as insult to put him back in his place

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    1. ent of Martius: 'That we did, we did for the best, and though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet it was against ou

      perhaps another reason why C hates the plebs and doesn't want to speak to them. he thinks he is wasting his words as their feelings are fickle they love or hate on a whim plus he thinks he shoud be offered the post of consul as a reward for his amazing fighting

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  2. Nov 2018
    1. All

      showing vs telling showing - example of John Reed's tyranny in previous chapter when he threw the book at her. example of servants' partiality - Abbot's words and Bessie's. others are telling?

    2. Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind? No; moonlight was still, and this stirred:

      internal conversation

    3. A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour, with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany

      asyndoten to make it overwhelming? so much stuff so much red/pink darkly polished old...

    4. I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie’s evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated traveller

      foreshadows how R sees J first meeting gytrash

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    1. be given; they should be preceded by the accepted abbreviated forms ‘ed. by’, ‘trans. by’, ‘rev. by’

      please give examples of ed. by and trans. by

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    1. orce du mythe, écrit-elle, est telle que la plupart des spectateurs, en dépit des intentions de l’auteur, n’écoutèrent que la

      audience response

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  3. Oct 2018
    1. beengraduallytodivertattentionawayfromitsimmediatecontextandtoconvertitintoauniversalplayabouttherecurrentbattlebetweenthegenerations

      idealism - ? processed/springs from where in brain?

      pragmatism - prefrontal cortex

    2. IncontrasttotheSophocles,ithasacoolsurface,andthisisnowheremoreobviousthanattheverybeginningandattheend

      cool surface - can be seen in 70s film version stacey keach

      warm - can be seen in juliette binoche version

    3. andtheculturalassimilationinvolvedhasinEnglandneverbeenentirelyfreefromananglocentricreconstructionofthecontinentalexperienceofwar

      is this not, perhaps, what the writer is guilty of in her comments on the previous page about Anouilh as nostalgic etc?

    4. completelyshockingnewness

      perhaps the force of circumstance - perhaps his suddenly and potentially for the first time connecting something from ancient Greece to his own historical moment

    5. howcananybodyhavealwayshadbyheartaplaythathehadreadandre-read

      I might know a song by heart but I still want to hear it. I might know a poem by heart but I still want to read it.

      My quibble would be with 'always' - it's not true that he had 'always' known it

    6. Ithinkthisisamistakeandisprobablyderivedfrombeliefinahierarchicalrelationshipbetweentheancientandthemodernlanguage,castingthetargetlanguageasthesuppliantratherthanthepartner

      Perhaps. But I think it's more complicated. Perhaps there were errors in the mediating translation - e.g. the Anouilh version we are using which contains 2 errors

      also - different purposes - e.g. studying the original greek in detail vs a chinese whispers study of different translations working through each other

    1. AttheclimaxoftheassaultonThebes,Creon,undercompulsionofTeiresias’propheticbidding,sacrificesMegareustothegodsandthusobtainssalvationforThebes

      If Creon has sacrificed his son to save Thebes, he is unlikely to be sympathetic to Antigone's desire to bury Polynices. this refers to Maurice Druon's version?

      Antigone was written by Sophocles before the other 2 plays. Does this have any impact on my statement above?

    2. arepertoirethatexistsonlyinthereaderandisactivatedby“referencestoearlierworks

      e.g. my belief that Rushdie was referring to Prophet Mohammed in the Satanic Verses, not because he referred to him as such in SV (he referred to Mohandan the prophet), but because he had referred to him as Mohandan in Midnight's Children.

    3. theabilitytorecognizethegapsandhurdlesofaworkasungrammaticalarepartofeveryreader’slinguisticcompetence

      massive generalisation. assumes one universal reader reader as archetype

    4. Solvingthepuzzleofaliterarytextisnotaspecialtalent,tobecultivatedbylongyearsoftraining,butaskillwithinthereachof“themostordinaryreader”;theinterpreter“isonlyamoreconsciousreader”(“InterpretationandDescriptivePoetry”236,238).YethisowninterpretationsofpoemsandnovelsarefulloflearnedallusionsanddrawonanencyclopediccommandofFrenchandEnglishliteratures

      what about writerly vs readerly texts? most ordinary readers would struggle with modernist texts like Mrs Dalloway

    1. But if much converse perhaps Thee satiate, to short absence I could yield. For solitude somtimes is best societie,

      Adam seems to misunderstand that Eve's comments regarding their conversations were in regard to their interrupting the necessary work in the garden. Adam appears to understand her comment as meaning that she has had enough conversation and needs a break from it.

    2. These paths & Bowers doubt not but our joynt hands Will keep from Wilderness with ease, as wide

      Adam's opinion is different from Eve's - he seems to feel that caring for the garden is easy, while Eve seems overwhelmed by it.

    3. unearn'd. Labor is not alien to Milton's Paradise; rather it is considered proper to human dignity and its performance made food, drink and rest more pleasurable (4.328). The notion of earning one's supper by work does, however, seem at odds with Paradise; Adam was quite ready to take an afternoon off to entertain Raphael.

      Perhaps because she feels overwhelmed by the amount of work that the garden requires, and that continual interruptions mean that they are not keeping up with it: 'what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, [ 210 ] One night or two with wanton growth derides Tending to wilde.'