Forms of Narrative: Narratology Complete Incomplete Novel

"One should never bear grudges against people, never judge them by the memory of one unkind act, for we can never know all the good resolves and effective actions of which their souls may have been capable at another time. And so, even from the simple point of view of foresight, we make mistakes. For no doubt the bad pattern we observed on that one occasion will recur. But the soul is richer than that, has many other patterns which will also recur in the same man, yet we refuse to take pleasure in them because of one piece of bad behavior in the past."

Nothing Below is Required for this Course. You Are Free to Stop Reading Here and Now:

Inside the Academic-Freedom Crisis That Roiled Florida’s Flagship

A ‘Chronicle’ investigation tracks how a decision to silence professors emerged from the depths of bureaucracy.

Nothing Below is Required for this Course. You Are Free to Stop Reading Here and Now:

If to read a book as it should be read calls for the rarest qualities of imagination, insight, and judgment, you may perhaps conclude that literature is a very complex art and that it is unlikely that we shall be able, even after a lifetime of reading, to make any valuable contribution to its criticism. We must remain readers.

Gerard Manley Hopkins burned his poems when he entered a seminary. See William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity

"No matter how scandalous and unsavory the Derrida-Heidegger-Trakl encounter may seem, therefore, it may well be that the encounter has - as Merleau-Ponty said of the artwork - most of its life still ahead of it.

It may be that the new waves of scandal lapping against the shores of Heidegger's life make it less likely than ever that students will want to take up Heidegger's and Derrida's readings of Trakl, especially in the United States, where Puritanism continues to reign in the academy, in our political life, and in our military detention."

To counter widely circulated allegations, let it be stated here explicitly that the dedication of Being and Time mentioned on page 16 of the Dialogue remained in Being and Time until its fourth edition of 1935. In 1941, when my publishers felt that the fifth edition might be endangered and that, indeed, the book might be suppressed, it was finally agreed, on the suggestion and at the desire of Niemeyer, that the dedication be omitted from the edition, on the condition imposed by me that the note to page 38 be retained— a note which in fact states the reason for that dedication, and which runs: "If the following investigation has taken any steps forward in disclosing the 'things themselves', the author must first of all thank E. Husserl, who, by providing his own incisive personal guidance and by freely turning over his unpublished investigations, familiarized the author with the most diverse areas of phenomenological research during his student years in Freiburg" (Being and Time, Harper & Row, 1962, 489).

Fireworks are apparitions par excellence. They are an empirical appearance free of the burden of empirical being in general which is that it has duration; they are a sign of heaven and yet artefactual; they are both a writing on the wall, rising and fading away in short order, and yet not a writing that has any meaning we can make sense of.

Inside the Woke Indoctrination Machine
After watching 100 hours of leaked video, we now fully grasp the danger of this ideology in
schools.
By Andrew Gutmann and Paul Rossi
Feb. 11, 2022 6:15 pm ET

All film titles, you will have to find and seek out on your own. Any linked reading will take you to a pdf. All readings that are not linked you will have to find on your own.

David Hayden, "Reading"

Starting here, from this quotation of Nietzsche by Heidegger, after a movement that up to now I have done little more than comment on, or rather paraphrasing, there begins an active reading by Heidegger that we must follow closely in order to pinpoint Heidegger’s intervention in its specific time and place. It takes place over a few pages, a few lines, but to linger there is not to shut ourselves up in it and to shut the rest of the book, since it in fact reverberates throughout and is represented in Heidegger’s entire interpretation of Nietzsche. . . .

There is something strange about this, something that, to tell you the truth—I won’t hide it from you—I have difficulty understanding where in these few pages something decisive for the entire interpretation is at stake.

Please do not ask me to write a letter of recommendation for you to get a Ph.D. in English. :(

Digital facsimile of the first edition of Le Bavard (1946). You can see that the book has aged. You can also a shadow running the middle of each scan.

All film titles, you will have to find and see our your own. Any linked reading will take you to a pdf. All readings that are not linked you will have to find on your own.

Filmed & edited by Rob Lavers, Wednesday 18th May, 2016, Paris, France. Commissioned by Professor Simon Morris for the Reading as Art exhibition at Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Saturday 27th august to Saturday 19th November 2016.

"Lean In" FB "feminism" Albright "there's a special place in hell" False consciousness

“If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart."
--Stanley Kubrick

"This article examines how Brontë makes French into a kind of licence for freedom of speech issued to both the eponymous heroine of the novel and the novelist herself. Jane’s knowledge of French qualifies her for the post of governess to Parisian born Adèle, and thus offers her an income and some independence. Significantly, the first French verb Jane learns is être,as if the foreign language were offering her a new life. At Thornfield, she finds herself in a small community of French speaking women. Adèle’s frivolity and clothes-consciousness typify French stereotypes which contrast with Jane’s earnestness and self-government. Rochester calls on his command of French in an attempt to define his non-conventional relationship with Jane. Thanks to the French language, Brontë’s heroine succeeds in constructing her own space in the Victorian domestic world."

"The Biden administration’s new rules for adjudicating campus sexual misconduct allegations favor an ‘inquisitorial’ approach over procedural fairness" June 28, 2022

In American politics, the rhetoric of prioritizing “victims’ rights” before a determination could be made about whether an accuser actually was a victim has long been associated with the extreme right, usually around racial issues. A decade ago, the Obama administration surprisingly embraced it as a means of encouraging more Title IX reports on campuses. The resurrection of this core hostility to civil liberties under a still more progressive administration remains one of the great ironies of the Title IX debate."

The Cubies’ ABC (1913)

Elizabeth Bishop, "The Art of Losing"

"WALKING AMONG THE UNIVERSITY’S RUINS" 3.8.2022

Bill Readings, The University in Ruins

Interrogating Texts Six Reading Habits to Develop

Reading Strategies

Staniford, Daniel, 1766-1820, comp.The Art of reading: containing a number of useful rules exemplified by a variety of selected and original pieces, narrative, didactic, argumentative, poetical, descriptive, pathetic, o. 38554) humorous, and entertaining. : Together with dialogues, speeches, orations, addresses, and harangues; calculated to improve the scholar in reading and speaking with propriety and elegance; and to impress the minds of yough with sentiments of virtue and religion. Designed for the use of schools and families. Check holdings Library West Microfiche (3rd Floor) (Z1364 .E25 1990z n)

"John Middleton Murry wrote that if you try to be precise you are bound to be metaphorical." --Vladimir Nabokov

"I am sorry for the boy or girl, or man or woman, who has never been touched by the spell of this mysterious sensorial life, with its irrationality, if so you like to call it, but its vigilance and its supreme felicity. The holidays of life are its most vitally significant portions, because they are, or at least should be, covered with just this kind of magically irresponsible spell.

And now what is the result of all these considerations and quotations? It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off: neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer, although each observer gains a partial superiority of insight from the peculiar position in which he stands. Even prisons and sick-rooms have their special revelations. It is enough to ask of each of us that he should be faithful to his own opportunities and make the most of his own blessings, without presuming to regulate the rest of the vast field."

--William James, On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

Rescuing the Left From Its Obsession With Culture — Vivek Chibber

Vivek Chibber, The Class Matrix Social Theory after the Cultural Turn

Why does this lady have a fly on her head? | National Gallery

Disruptive Behavior:

"Perhaps I may give you a more vivid picture of repression and of its necessary relation to resistance, by a rough analogy derived from our actual situation at the present moment. Let us suppose that in this lecture- room and among this audience, whose exemplary quiet and attentiveness I cannot sufficiently commend, there is nevertheless someone who is causing a disturbance and whose ill-mannered laughter, chattering and shuffling with his feet are distracting my attention from my task. I have to announce that I cannot proceed with my lecture; and thereupon three or four of you who are strong men stand up and, after a short struggle, put the interrupter outside the door. So now he is ‘repressed’, and I can continue my lecture. But in order that the interruption shall not be repeated, in case the individual who has been expelled should try to enter the room once more, the gentlemen who have put my will into effect place their chairs up against the door and thus establish a ‘resistance’ after the repression has been accomplished. If you will now translate the two localities concerned into psychical terms as the ‘conscious’ and the ‘unconscious’, you will have before you a fairly good picture of the process of repression. . . .At first sight it really seems impossible to trace a path from repression to the formation of symptoms. Instead of giving a complicated theoretical account, I will return here to the analogy which I employed earlier for my explanation of repression. If you come to think of it, the removal of the interrupter and the posting of the guardians at the door may not mean the end of the story. It may very well be that the individual who has been expelled, and who has now become embittered and reckless, will cause us further trouble. It is true that he is no longer among us; we are free from his presence, from his insulting laughter and his sotto voce comments. But in some respects, nevertheless, the repression has been unsuccessful; for now he is making an intolerable exhibition of himself outside the room, and his shouting and banging on the door with his fists interfere with my lecture even more than his bad behaviour did before. In these circumstances we could not fail to be delighted if our respected president, Dr. Stanley Hall, should be willing to assume the role of mediator and peacemaker. He would have a talk with the unruly person outside and would then come to us with a request that he should be re-admitted after all: he himself would guarantee that the man would now behave better. On Dr. Hall’s authority we decide to lift the repression, and peace and quiet are restored. This presents what is really no bad picture of the physician’s task in the psycho-analytic treatment of the neuroses."

Please do not ask me to write a letter of recommendation for you to get a Ph.D. in English. I'm sorry.

Some people like answers more than they do questions. I call that Q & A Criticism. Here is an example Franco Moretti's book The Bourgeois: "And one wonders: Why these scenes of almost mythical brutality . . . ? Why does Gesualdo risk his life like that? He does it, because he is terrified that his wealth may disappear, a fear that is always with him . . . ."

I prefer to hear someone ask one new question that leads to more questions than to hear 1,000 plus new answers to an old question. I call this this kind of criticism Q & Q Questioning Questioing. For an example, see the last paragraph of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time.

Basic Terms of Music (including scale, melody, harmony, time signature, rythm, downbeat, fugue, among others)

2012--the transition from analog broadcasting to digital; the end of the cathode ray television set.

The best way to learn how to pronounce French is probably to listen to vocabulary words on a screen one at a time, repeat the words aloud, and then listen to them in sentences and repeat the sentence aloud. You can go back and replay the word several times to practice pronouncing it. Even if you can't pronounce it correctly, you'll know how it is supposed to sound.

To learn how to understand a music, a philosopher once said, you have to hear it twice.

A modern conductor of baroque music said you have to listen a piece of music several times in a row to understand it.

"the greatest pieces of music are called classics simply because at a first hearing--that is terribly that is very complicated to work out what's going on or even more complicated to explain to yourself why it's going on--even to hear it has to be heard several times probably after first hearing immediately go back and hear it again, and on repeated hearings repreated things come to light."

Vienna and Schubert: 'Death and the Maiden' String Quartet - Professor Chris Hogwood CBE

"How full of meaning and significance the language of music is we see from the repetition of signs, as well as from the Da capo which would be intolerable in the case of works composed in the language of words. In music, however, they are very appropriate and beneficial; for to comprehend it fully, we must hear it twice."

The left is at its most intelligent and most ethical when it believes—and vigorously promotes the belief—that everyone has the right to be heard."

A favorite talking point of establishment, so-called progressives who support de-platforming and social media censorship by Silicon Valley tech giants is "free speech doesn't mean speech free from consequences." That is a typically vague, but also threatening neoliberal content free statement. What consequences follow from exercising your First Amendment right to free speech other than more speech? Doxxing? Getting fired from your job? If you are against free speech, that is your right. But the consequence is that I will think you are really dumb. And ignorant. And morally under-developed. And figure that you are probably white. Ditto if you are against due process. The First Amendment protects minorities and those with minority opinions from being de-platformed and censored. "Hate speech," otherwise known as "speech I don't like," is constitutionally protected speech. Guess what happens to Palestinian student activists if they organize a boycott of Israel. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process, meaning someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Guess how many black men have been falsely accused and convicted of raping a white woman only to be exonerated decades later because DNA evidence proved their innocence. Have you ever seen To Kill a Mockingbird? Guess how many people convicted of murder and then executed were posthumously exonerated. Guess how many black people have been lynched. Google it. Educate yourself. Know your civil liberties. Don't be dumb, be a smartie. Universal Rights protect racial and sexual minorities. "Representation," perhaps the most cynical notion of politics ever to emerge from the elites in the history of the United States, does not. The National Security State wants you identitification papers. Authoritarianism, censorship, Big Tech demonitization and deplatforming of social media, policing who can say what where, the pre-school politics of twitter are antithetical to the thought and imaginative freedom which creating literature involves.

Mlle Vinteuil and unnamed woman spitting on M. Vinteuil's photograph and then having sex in Montjouvain.

We will proceed by reading selections from each novel after Swann's Way in chronological, the selections having some relation to the previous novels. So as we read, we will be recalling and calling up passages we may remember or have forgotten. You can fill in what happens in the parts we are skipping by using Proust's own synopses or Kilmartin's or Alexander's Synopses.

Our reading of the Search will be interrupted from time to time by readings from Genette and other important readings related to the novel and narrative.

Françoise killing the "filthy" chicken; her jealousy of Eulalie (anticiaptes her jealousy of Albertine in The Prisoner)

Saint-Loup, socialist aristocrat, in Donçiere, the discussion of military strategy

Rachel at the theater and in the theater on stage; Sant-Loup's violent jeaulosy; the pear tree blossoms

The narrator getting stuck in the revolving door of a restaurant, dines with Saint-Loup

Intermittencies of the Heart (or "Interruptions of the Heart")--involuntary memory

The joke about the name Cambremer sounding like "camembert" finally spelled out.

The grandmother's birthday present to the narrator of both French translations of the 1,001 Nights.

The ending--Mlle Vinteuil and Albertine; the mother resembling the grandmother; the image of the narrator's love never coincides with any of his mistresses.

Jealousy--infinite non-knowing. Working Class Girls. Albertine's presence prevents him from ever knowing / seducing them.

The author and the work of art Vinteuil Septet and Bergotte's Death in The Prisoner; Le Figaro in The Fugitive

Swann in Love (200 pages) Genette Proust and Metonymy; Proust and Indirect Style

"Indespensable to a stockbroker," in Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, (Davis, p. 102)

Read up through the words "lasting form assumed by cruelty," in Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, (Davis, 169)

Read up through the words "landscape we are about to leave forever," in Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, (Davis, p. 242)

"Swann was never mentioned again," in Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, (Davis, p. 300)

Read up through the words "since the table turning," in Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, (Davis, p. 366)

Read up through the words "was not my type," in Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, (Davis, p. 396)

Read until the end of the novel: "They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at the time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, and avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years." (Davis, p. 444)

A favorite talking point of establishment, so-called progressives who support de-platforming and social media censorship by Silicon Valley tech giants is "free speech doesn't mean speech free from consequences." That is a typically vague, but also threatening neoliberal content free statement. What consequences follow from exercising your First Amendment right to free speech other than more speech? Doxxing? Getting fired from your job? If you are against free speech, that is your right. But the consequence is that I will think you are really dumb. And ignorant. And morally under-developed. And figure that you are probably white. Ditto if you are against due process. The First Amendment protects minorities and those with minority opinions from being de-platformed and censored. "Hate speech," otherwise known as "speech I don't like," is constitutionally protected speech. Guess what happens to Palestinian student activists if they organize a boycott of Israel. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process, meaning someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Guess how many black men have been falsely accused and convicted of raping a white woman only to be exonerated decades later because DNA evidence proved their innocence. Have you ever seen To Kill a Mockingbird? Guess how many people convicted of murder and then executed were posthumously exonerated. Guess how many black people have been lynched. Google it. Educate yourself. Know your civil liberties. Don't be dumb, be a smartie. Universals protect minorities. Identities do not. Authoritarianism is antithetical to the thought and imaginative freedom on which literature depends.

“A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.”

Modern Fears (Pilotpriest Come True Version) (Original Motion Picture Sound) 2021

Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) —with 80s Miami Vice pink opening titles

1980s --"postmodernism" stockpiling of images; last decade of high fashion. "Pastiche" versus "parody" Frederic Jameson

Happy ending or sad ending: Dom and Darlene are going to go to
Budapest, then Dom changes her mind, then Darlene does not use her
ticket and does not board the plane. Cross cutting as Dom runs back to the boarding gate. Music Carly Rae Jepsen "Run Away
with Me" on E.Mo.Tion album Darlene is in the
bathroom having a panic attack. So you think it's going to be a happy
ending. But last shot reveals the empty seat next to Dom. Music
still playing.

So students. You already know how to read by genre. Happy ending--or
shock from happy ending withheld. Only upbeat is Darlene calming down
and saying to herself in the mirror "I can take care of myself."

Btw, don't even think of going to graduate school to get a Ph.D in English--or any other kind of--literature.

Dan Cohen, "The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper: University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves" The Atlantic May 2019

There are in our existence spots of time,
          That with distinct pre-eminence retain
          A renovating virtue, whence--depressed                     210
          By false opinion and contentious thought,
          Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight,
          In trivial occupations, and the round
          Of ordinary intercourse--our minds
          Are nourished and invisibly repaired;
          A virtue, by which pleasure is enhanced,
          That penetrates, enables us to mount,
          When high, more high, and lifts us up when fallen.

The current version of this website is the binding one, if you are taking this course.

Did Led Zeppelin steal Stairway to Heaven's opening notes?

What is a "strong woman?" Who is a "strong woman?" A corporate oligarch funded by Wall Street and former prosecutor? Or a combat veteran funded by individual donors?

Hamlet, In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiration for Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play's context and meaning, and why it has fascinated audiences from its first performance.

"The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s decision to speak out against Holocaust analogies is a moral threat" JULY 12, 2019

To understand how I have designed and planned this course, please be sure to look at

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Scrips and Scribbles," MLN, Vol. 118, No. 3, German Issue (Apr., 2003), pp. 622-636.

Consider everything I say as parts of the contents of a time capsule from long ago that has yet to be opened, much kess indexed and archived.

This segment below is really worth watching in its entirety: One brave anti-war candidate gets through the gauntlet of four furious, total establishment enemy combatants. Gabbard is incredibly poised and strong, calling out the smearing of her and other leftists as it happens in real time, face to face. Bizarrely, it now appears that a woman from the military who actully thinks rationally about foreign interventions and regime changes would make a better than the militarized chickenhawk civilians now running the country.