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| + | I have found a note that Delauney (whose art is juxtaposed with The Waste Land) was most influenced as an artist by Rosseau. Maybe there is something there? | ||
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| + | '''10/12/12 - 12:48 am''' | ||
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| + | My newest notes relating to thematic content of the contextual works: | ||
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| + | '''The Criterion''' | ||
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| + | "The Victim" by May Sinclair: right after the Wasteland; bar-ish scene with possible cheating going on; the people speak in a certain dialect; leaving partner because of intervention from someone else; set during war time; "should not be surprised if he had lost his memory" | ||
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| + | "Dullness" by George Saintsbury: "Now, most literature...requires this small thing to be done ''by'' the reader. All [is] greatly improved, at any rate taken out of the possible vein of dullness, by activity instead of passivity on the reader's part." | ||
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| + | "The Story of Tristram and Isolt in Modern Poetry" by T. Sturge Moore: fertility...this author is treating legendary lovers and he says their situation "forced illegal passion on these lovers."; "Is adultery ever to be condoned?" | ||
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| + | "Recent German Poetry" by Hermann Hesse: essay; notes that "two principal themes are everywhere predominant: rebellion against authority and against the culture of that authority in process of downfall; and eroticism...They indicate, in fact, the two central interests of youth." "The experience of the Great War, with the collapse of all the old forms and the breakdown of moral codes and cultures hitherto valid, appears to be incapable of interpretation except by psycho-analysis." | ||
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| + | "The 'Ulysses' of James Joyce" by Valery Larbaud: Editor's note "This essay...is still the best introduction that has been offered to Mr. Joyce's book."; The first two sentences acknowledge that only "the cultivated reader who can fully appreciate such authors as Rabelais, Montaigne, and Descartes" and who has "The ''Odyssey'' clearly in mind" will be able to read te book with any understanding or pleasure. Last content in the magazine. | ||
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| + | Front page says "Vol. I No. 1" Is this the first issue??? | ||
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| + | I'm curious as to how they chose the name "The Criterion" and how that might relate to included content, ie The Waste Land | ||
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| + | '''The Dial''' | ||
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| + | Vol LXXIII No. 5 | ||
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| + | painting at front of Waste Land: St. Severin by Robert Delaunay. "Made in Germany" "Courtesy of Der Sturm, Berlin" | ||
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| + | Schnitzler: mention of a wedding; "You wish it so. You drive me into the arms of another."; "a sudden jealousy flamed up in Graesler; no doubt of it--she was with someone else." | ||
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| + | "Reflections on the Greek Genius" by Elie Faure: "the Greek fears two things: responsibility and death." | ||
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| + | "Landscape: south of France" by Duncan Grant - could go with our theme of globalization | ||
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| + | "Many Marriages" by Sherwood Anderson: fertility/marriage! | ||
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| + | "A Symposium of the Exotic" by Edward Sapir: a book review of ''American Indian Life''; "exotic" -- curiosity about the "other" although not from another place in the globe still that same feeling of a foreign culture. | ||
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| + | "Comment": "worst of all, the young person is reduced to the ranks, uncapitalized and almost decapitated as an authority on literature." | ||
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| + | That's what I have for now. Elizabeth Behm 09/12/2012 12:26am. | ||
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I am currently looking at the criterion and I see that the foreign language in the poem is not italicized. | I am currently looking at the criterion and I see that the foreign language in the poem is not italicized. | ||
