“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Summer School: Early Literary Theory 6



Featuring discussions of Aristotle, rhetoric, Plato, OOO. In particular, the role of memory in objects. And the idea of poetry as compression, which I develop in some posts below.

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