Secondary orality will be on the test--reclaiming some qualities of the oral world
All things move in the direction of perfecting itself--the tragic drama
Aristotle: Euripides was the most tragic, but Sophocles, the author of the Oedipus trilogy was the greatest because he gave us the definition of tragedy
Lacuna--an unfilled space or internal gap
The detective story is an example of a linear novel
Exposition--Rising--Climax--Falling--Denouement
Episodic: The Odyssey and The Iliad--loosely connected parts or events
The literate world has "one correct version of the story", while the oral has no single, coherent truth for any story. Piling of stories upon stories.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a wide variety of things to be experienced.
Peter Ramus-took out all the images in the memory system
Hermetic tradition and the guide of souls--the psychopompous (psyche=soul)
Memory and imagination: Hermetic-through metamorphosis and alchemy, the purification of the soul.
Naustic notion--drug down into the world and forget everything
"The Alchemist", "The Man Who Fell to Earth"--fall into forgetfulness by the distractions of the Earth. Sex, drugs, rock and roll...
Literacy literally means letter.
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