01-07-2012, 12:53 PM
You're completely correct. I have this delusion that since I spent all these years in school studying this stuff I should pass it on. It completely belies the fact that no one cares about that sort of thing. If you want to be popular among English professors, and get ask out of cordials, just fain interest in such things as literary criticism, or better yet, the history of!
I think I had no less than 3 teachers teach the "Daedalus incredibly stupid son myth" in widely disparate classes. It is probably the most overly used myth in English. I guess it is because it appears so accessible, and taps into that flight/freedom/hubris archetype it is irresistible. Besides all those sophomoric writers have little knowledge to pull from in that first mo0ment of enlightenment. The classes were, the pre-Socratics, Greek Dramatist, Greek Mythology.
Dale
I think I had no less than 3 teachers teach the "Daedalus incredibly stupid son myth" in widely disparate classes. It is probably the most overly used myth in English. I guess it is because it appears so accessible, and taps into that flight/freedom/hubris archetype it is irresistible. Besides all those sophomoric writers have little knowledge to pull from in that first mo0ment of enlightenment. The classes were, the pre-Socratics, Greek Dramatist, Greek Mythology.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.