In pairs, discuss (5 min):
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(William Blake, 1757-1827)
Blake is awesome/crazy: "Robert stood before him in one of his visionary imaginations, and so decidedly directed him" in how to publish his works "without the expense of a letterpress" (Oxford DNB)
Material production: means of destroying social divisions/hierarchies, and the invention of a new technology (in protest to increasingly alienated labor). What does the "Introduction" suggest about writing as a technology? Dion, "The Wanderer" (1961)
The Everly Brothers, "When Will I Be Loved" (1960) Betty Everett, "It's in His Kiss" (1964) The Platters, "The Great Pretender"(1973) from Daniel Albright, Panaesthetics: "the discipline of comparative arts arises from the work of... Gotthold Lessing, who argued in Laokoon (1766) that the temporal arts, such as music and literature, had protocols wholly distinct from those of the spatial arts, such as sculpture and painting. He began by asking himself a question that the great art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann had asked before him: In the famous Roman stature (excavated in Michelangelo's time), why isn't Laocoon screaming? Laocoon and his children are being squeezed to death by an enormous snake; but Laocoon's mouth is a tight stoic line. Lessing argued that artworks in a sequential medium pertain to action and should be loud, vigorous, expressive, so it's appropriate that in the Aeneid Virgil depicts Laocoon as raising a horrible clamor to the stars; but artworks in a spatial medium pertain to stasis and should be decorous, calm, poised, so it's right that a statue should strive for balance and beauty even if it depicts a man dying horribly. A work of visual art is an immobile noun, or a collection of immobile nouns; a poem, a novel, a piece of music is all verb." (3) (note: this is Lessing's definition, not the RIGHT definition, and certainly not OUR definition! It just will offer us something to push against and test as we compare the verbal and the visual, and what happens when you introduce the visual to the verbal) Five Minute Free Write: What are the characteristics of a writing workshop that you've volunteered to join? How does a voluntary writing workshop differ from a traditional, college-level English writing course?
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