Hash for May 01, 2009

- The Reading of Gossamer von Goss's final blog entry

Group 1 - [MAPS] They all worked individually and it all came together, Maps

Group 2 - [BOUNDARY] Boundaries, Children's Literature, Rabbit Hole, Transformation into something new and bringing that back with you

Group 3 - [DREAMS] Dreams are remembrance (Before Adam)

Group 4 - [COMPLIMENTARY] Complimentary - Chp. 7 of Ong - Orality and Literacy are complimentary

Group 5 - [TRADITION] - Stories are the history and the memory of the culture

Group 6 - [CONTEXT] - Everything is contextual, nothing exists without context to something else

Individual Presentations

KKB - commands attention w/ storytelling: info not seperate from message

Check Mark Parker - not bound to his text, passed around tangible objects, chaos

ONG

Chapter 7 - Be read very carefully - People who talk about literary history usually never talk about the oral tradition, largely because it does not exist in terms of written text. The Bible is a book/text centered culture. Interiorization and the importance to the individual are literary evolutions.

1. Plea for Oral Traditions in the literary history.

2. Identify these schools of literary criticism-
Formalism - New Criticism - Nothing but the text!
Structure - Deep Structures within the text that control it
Deconstruction - "There is no outside the text!" Everything is connected
Reader Response - It depends on the experiences and knowledge of the reader

3. Phonocentrism (speech)
Logocentrism (word)

4. We have become more interior, and this is because we have become more literate.

YATES

320 (Robert Flood - Kabalist, Thought Memory Theatre be in world), 329, 352, 364

Luby's Blog - HE IS POSSESSED! Read it!

!!!!!!!****A Manuscript Found in Sara Gassa (or a) (sp?)****!!!!!!! Find It! (Only if you want to read a crazy frame novel.... story about story about story about story etc.)

Fourth Day of Individual Presentations

***Friday mandatory attendance! (Talk to Dr. Sexson if you won't be there) We'll do a review and wrap up the semester.***

Snake Hair Kayla - what makes story/myths so important to us... now in secondary orality, and in primary orality

Lisa of the Little Legs - Ichi (sp) - last wild indian that came out of the woods in 1911 - lived an oral culture til his 40's where he spent time in San Francisco

Two-Tongued Charlie - How much orality is found within the bible, mostly old testament - Epic Lists and their power - Performance and Torah

Joan Gossimer von Goss - The Power of Words

Jana the Tamer of Horses - The Power of Names - Three aspects: Naming something gives power to the person giving the name, forced familiarity, junk mailing names and prizes; the power they give the thing that is named

Steve of the Rivers - The Raven, The Light, and My Failure as a Mythteller - He wrote a native-type story but found out there just was no magic there

Parker of the Outback - Film and the Oral Tradition of Storytelling - Films and Dream Logic and Movies as the next evolution of storytelling

Chris the Scribe - The Story Shower - My Father and why he's the greatest storyteller ("story shower") I have ever known

Charismatic Kari - The Power of Names - Religious Names and the Power they give the people in the bible

(*** I think that even calling something what we have told ourselves they are - like desk, table, tree - gives us power over them... imagine seeing that green, woody thing outside and not knowing what it was... we would have absolutely no power over it, and that's the point.***)

Kate of the Beautiful Eyes - Tristram Shandy vs. The Literate Tradition - couldn't convey what he wanted through print alone, so he used many oral aspects to get his point across

Summer Breeze - T.S. Elliot's "Four Quartets" and connections with poetry starting somewhere other than where Professor Sexson said they did! Ah! Blasphemy! What the shaman speaks is law ;)!

Third Day of Individual Presentations

Chris of Laughing Rats - Kabala and Oral Traditions - A Word is a thing, the letters define that thing

Wise Wandering Shannon - Oral Traditions with the deaf people - History of sign language - Every letter looks like greek alphabet, more like writing rather than oral... but reading lips and gestures are hugely oral tradition

Check Mark Parker - Big Box of Goodies - Convey Meaning by building off past language and the evolution of it - Order out of Chaos

*** (The Degree to which you are text bound is also the degree to which you are seperated from all others)

James the Rat - Reoccuring Dream - Homer reading Illiad - Poetry and the beginning of story telling - Plato's thoughts - Fight Club and Images in movies taking Oral schemes out of Literature and putting them into Iamgery and Stimulus

Kyle of the Skinny Jeans - "The Alphabet vs. The Goddess" Book - Oral and Literate Tradition Different from Ong - Ong sets the two apart... Schlane? approaches them as being parallel and internalized - Rise of Patriarchal Society and Male Dominance Influence... Brain structures and purposes for the way we are

Tautologic Tai - The Medium is the Massage - Works directly with the Ong Book - Secondary Oral people can not perceive Primary Orality... Mcluhan says all media and mediums now do this - Juxtapositions and Experimental Book - Huge Scroll Writing/Comic/World and Meaning of Life!

Big Rich - Evolution of Orality - How complimentary these papers have been sit in his mind - Anatomically modern man and the ability to speak about the same time as the evidence of culture - Also spoke of why we speak and where it comes from (Natural Sounds and Beautiful Song)

1st Day of Individual Presentations

Jared and Sutter went.... I had their ifo stored in computer, then my battery died. So if you want to know what they talked about, I'll either update this soon after visiting the muse of their blog or you can go read their muse as well. ;)

Kelsey of the Free Rent- Played "Let it be" - Music, Muses, & Oral Traditions - Music
- Can be an oral tradition - A frame of existence
- Muses called upon before recitings.
- Mother Mary for personal salvation rather than performance.
- Music transcends oral & Literate traditions.

KK Ben - Creating a good story from Vivid Dreams, Personal Experience Memories
- Meaning Making
- Telling Story

Bearded Brandon - Situational and Existential - Abstract (song that never ends) and written to perfection - Song down on print - The song made up on stage, then they forgot the song, then they wrote a tribute and wrote that down, and sung about it (Tribute - Tenacious D). Box in box song. Myse-em-abyme.

ZZ Zach - What he learned - Advantages of the memory theatre
- Being able to reach into that part of your brain

Nick - Flyting as an oral tradition
- David and Goliath
- Beowulf and Unferth
- Greenland Eskimoes verbally abusing on drums
- Inuit excommunicated after losing verbal battles
- 16th Century word contest, chastise with/Scottish poets
- Dunbar and Kennedy - sounds a lot like rap
- Agonistic Oral Cultures

Carly - T.S. Elliot connection for her and class - Interrelated connections of time - Four Quartets circle (Tradition of Individual Talent)

Ugh...Computers

So maybe a really tiny computer wasn't the best idea I've ever come up with..... they seem reliable and all, but if something gets lost electronically, like....say, a couple days a class notes..... you can't blame yourself, you can only blame the little computer as it blinks there so innocently in front of you. Sometimes you can blame yourself, but it's so terribly easy to click the wrong button on this little thing that it doesn't feel like it's your own fault.

Let's say I had written it on paper and then erased the two pages with my eraser.... on accident. Then I know that it would be my fault and only my fault... couldn't blame it on the eraser or the paper. Oh woe is me.....

Hopefully I'll be able to pull those little guys out of some hidden folder or dark and doomy tab/link/jargony jarg jarg place on this thing they call a pc. Hmm...

2nd Day of Individual Presentations

1. Sweet Smiling Melissa - Names - Adam named animals, man now has power over animals - Lolita and list of names

2. John of the Striped Hat - Sang and poetry for everything he has learned this semester

3. Deep Sea Fishing Jeff - Books, Letters, Periodicals, Radio, Television, Internet, Mobile Phones (collective wisdom available to all in world, rather than just those listening to mythteller) as an Aid to oral tradition, rather than undermine its progress

4. Zach of the Saving Bells - On Tonality... present in text and print too? Used Ong to support his theory.... it causes people to perceive language differently (relationship problems ;)

5. Willy Quiet Willy - List and literature - Oral tradition into Literate Tradition

6. Lisa the Luddite - Sound and Poetry - Wallace Stephens Quote - Orality allows poetry to come alive and awaken the senses in ways the print culture can not... pace, tones, monotony, creations of the voice...

7. Bright Eyes Kevin - Memory....Orality and Literacy... Mythtelling (connections with Memory, Imagination, and Soul)... Myths and Creating connections with Earth and Self and Sound

8. Robert of the Worded Limbs - Men of Japan who are (were?) the social class of taletellers in their society... they did this for money, and stories about happenings in their area... Performed Samurai poem/song/story... Tradition of strong warrior still living in strong businessmen today

9. Helena of the 10,000 Lakes - Nature as the inspiration for sound and orality - The Seasons and there sounds of the patterns of life - We've lost connection with the earth's myth because of our movement to literate world

Hash for April 13, 2009

*** Assignment - Required - Call for Help on the Rough Draft of your paper ***

- He also wants us to comment on the other's blogs.... he would love to see this happen more.

Groups - 1+2 Wednesday, 5+6 Friday, 3+4 Monday.... then z-a for presentations after that.

Correct Tests!

- Automatic A for anyone who builds Camillo's Memory Theatre to the big scale! (Hmm...:)