Word: verbalism
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Chances are that Penn and Princeton won't turn up with big rooting sections this weekend, but the games afford a good chance to practice up for Cornell on Wednesday. If the Big Red have a verbal edge at Ithaca, so should the Crimson at Watson...
...REEDOM'S JUST ANOTHER word for animated films. Freedom for the animator to construct a film frame by frame, drawing and painting and manipulating images, recurrences, and transitions. Freedom for the spectator from the usual verbal transmission of ideas and symbols. Freedom for the cinema from live-action continuous filming and naturalistic photography...
Frye goes on from here to give two different ways of looking at popular literature, one as a "packaged commodity" that an overproductive economy, "capitalist or socialist" feeds the masses, and the other, "the literature that demands the minimum of previous verbal experience and special education of the reader...
...platitudinists of Christian and Marxist interpretations of literature. Here was the critic who had begun to negotiate the peace in the '50s, with the Anatomy of Criticism, which outlined the science of literary criticism as a value-free system meant to classify all of the aspects of our own "verbal experience." Here was the boy-genius of sorts, with his shy smile and ingenuous delight n applause, who seemed to command all of Western literature and more. Here too was the wizened sage who not only possessed a comprehensive knowledge of literature, but brought it together in a perapatetic lecture...
...theory of society Frye develops to make the distinction between "myth" (the central canon of a society) and "romance" (stories on the periphery of a society). Again the argument is heady, based on Plato and Christianity's abridgement of the Greek philosopher to form a "hierarchy of verbal structures." In a quick and hopelessly inadequate phrase, this means some types of stories are "in" in a particular society and others are "out." What's accepted at one point may be unaccepted at another, but always the romance, the lowest form on the totem pole of stories, took over during phases...