Ancestors

Written by MissMythreyi on 2025-02-04 at 10:01

"Why is it that in dance a partner requests "the pleasure of the next dance" even after the woman had already tacitly accepted it?

Why is it that, in fashioning an Art of Love out of love, Ovid counsels us not to rush into the arms of pleasure?"

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Written by MissMythreyi on 2025-02-04 at 10:09

"The purpose of art, then, is to lead us to a knowledge of a thing through the organ of sight instead of recognition. By "enstranging" objects and complicating form, the device of art makes perception long and "laborious."

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Written by MissMythreyi on 2025-02-04 at 10:31

"All works of art, and not only parodies, are created either as a parallel or an antithesis to some model."

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Toot

Written by MissMythreyi on 2025-02-04 at 10:38

"Indeed, how thoroughly alien is generalization to art. How much closer it is instead to "particularization."

The practical mind seeks generalizations by creating, insofar as possible, wide-ranging, all-encompassing formulas.

Art, on the contrary, <.. is based on..>, on the particularizing of even that which is presented in a generalized and unified form."

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Descendants

Written by MissMythreyi on 2025-02-04 at 10:45

"Cinema is a triumph of the plot shift. What we usually see first

is a sequence of incomprehensible scenes, which are subsequently

explained by a protagonist;

this motivation is not an account of past events, as in novels, but a pure plot shift: it is as if a part of the film was cut off from the beginning and placed at the end."

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Written by MissMythreyi on 2025-02-06 at 08:27

"Sterne pulls out all the stops in his ingenious attempt to confound the reader. As his crowning achievement, he transposes a number of chapters in Tristram Shandy (i.e., chapters 18 and 19 of volume 9 come after chapter 25). This is motivated by the fact that:

"All I wish is, that it may be a lesson to the world, 'to let people tell their stories their own way " (633)."

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Written by MissMythreyi on 2025-02-06 at 08:30

Oh to consider plot being anything other than sequence of causal events?! Mad Lads

"The preface is no less unusual. It occupies nearly ten full printed pages, but it is found not in the beginning of the book but in volume 3, chapter 20, pages 192-203. The appearance of this preface is motivated by the fact that

All my heroes are off my hands;-----'tis the first time I have had a moment to spare.----- and I'll make use of it, and write my preface."

Option 1: in sequence it occurs to ya

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Written by MissMythreyi on 2025-02-06 at 08:33

ps - Shklovsky 🤝 Gogol, Tolstoy 🤝 (early) Yorgos Lanthimos and successful attempts at defamiliarisation.

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Written by MissMythreyi on 2025-02-06 at 08:38

Visualisation is not my main form of learning but this seems important in case

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