{"id":137,"date":"2016-09-20T20:15:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301\/?p=137"},"modified":"2018-08-15T23:35:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T06:35:56","slug":"notes-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/2016\/09\/20\/notes-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes: week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GRAMMAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/grammatica3.jpg\" alt=\"grammatica3\" width=\"426\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/grammatica3.jpg 426w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/grammatica3-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY &amp; THURSDAY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>Romance of the Rose<\/em> and its structure (spoiler: it\u2019s a rose) and outer frame:\n<ul>\n<li>A unified and universal grammar of love<\/li>\n<li>Or, what&#8217;s next after an arts education and how is it liberal or liberating?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Grammar in\/of the Rose:\n<ul>\n<li>Marvellousness, a foreign world, and learning its foreign language<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamienKempf\/status\/780552639188725761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;allegory&#8221;: @DamienKempf, 2016-09-26<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erik_kwakkel\/status\/780769220325933056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;medieval selfie&#8221;: @erik_kwakkel, 2016-09-27<br \/>\n<\/a>\u2014&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/obrienatrix\/status\/780790709733384192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reading<\/a>&#8221; via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SLevelt\/status\/718331847516807168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SLevelt, 2016-04-07<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How to make sense of individual words, how to assemble them coherently into sense, senses of the word &#8220;sense&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>How to read (remembering this is a dream, and will include topsy-turvy dream-sense)<\/li>\n<li>Reading the <i>Rose<\/i>: some useful ways to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roman de la Rose Digital Library<\/a><br \/>\n(see also: reading guides in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301\/2016\/09\/20\/romance-of-the-rose\/\">Resources &gt; <em>Romance of the Rose<\/em><\/a>)<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#sections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navigating by narrative section<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#illustrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navigating by illustration<\/a><br \/>\nNB: on Chrome, this works better; on Firefox and Safari, the link is often to the two pages just before (just click the\u00a0\u203a button to get to the next page)<br \/>\n\u2014Note that illustrations and other decoration form as important a part of the book as a whole\u2014and are as important to making sense of it\u2014as do words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reading: Reason and Fortune (<i>Roman de la Rose<\/i> 46-48, 64-110):\n<ul>\n<li>I will do a close-reading of at least one passage from this week&#8217;s reading, in live action: please bring your text, whether you have already read this week&#8217;s reading or not!<\/li>\n<li>One main online manuscript I&#8217;ll be using for images to accompany readings this week: British Library Harley MS 4425<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Description<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_4425_fs001r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual book<br \/>\n<\/a>\u2014Note that, at its beginning, this manuscript has something resembling modern-style &#8220;Contents&#8221;; and the red rubrication beside each illustration helps to guide and situation a reader, and to structure reading<br \/>\n\u2014Modern parallel: your <em>Rose <\/em>printed book is in prose and divided into chapters, so as to look and feel like a contemporary novel<\/li>\n<li>Multiple-version reading of a textual multiverse: how other manuscripts have chosen to illuminate this section of the text, how each of these constitutes a reading of the <em>Rose<\/em>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22L\u2019Amans%20Dreams%20He%20Rises%20and%20Dresses%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The very beginning&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Reson%20Scolds%20L\u2019Amans%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reason (1)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Reson%20Speaks%20to%20L\u2019Amans%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reason (2)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Amis%20Gives%20Money%20to%20L\u2019Amans%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">friendship &amp; giving<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22L\u2019Amans%20Acknowledges%20Amis\u2019%20Comfort%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22The%20Wheel%20of%20Fortune%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fortune&#8217;s wheel<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22The%20Path%20Called%20Trop%20Donner%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giving too much<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Fole%20Largece%20on%20Her%20Path%20to%20the%20Castle%20of%20Love%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Fortune%20with%20a%20Man%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fortune&#8217;s seductions<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Slaves%20of%20Money%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&amp; its consequences<\/a>: think enslavement vs liberty\/liberation<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Virginius%20Carrying%20Virginia\u2019s%20Head%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginius<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Virginius%20Pleads%20with%20Appius%20Claudius%20to%20Return%20Virginia%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>, &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Virginius%20Beheading%20Virginia%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><br \/>\nREADING <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22The%20Residence%20of%20Fortune%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fortune&#8217;s residence<\/a>:<br \/>\n\u2014compare especially these two (<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#read;Morgan948.061r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan 948 f. 61r <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#read;Arras897.034v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arras 897 f. 34v<\/a>) illustrations&#8217; attempts to depict what is happening<br \/>\non p. 90-94, perhaps the most superficially coherent part of Reason&#8217;s speech and around the structural midpoint of her section<br \/>\n\u2014simpler artistic decisions: <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#read;Francais12595.045v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France fr 12595 f.45<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#read;LudwigXV7.038v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Getty Ludwig XV 7 f. 38v<br \/>\n<\/a>\u2014and the compositionally simple but curiously surreal <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#read;Douce195.043r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bodleian Douce 195 f. 43r<\/a><br \/>\nFollowed by exempla (and note the manuscript decisions and tastes in <em>what <\/em>to depict and <em>how<\/em>: this will not necessarily agree with contemporary sensibilities):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Nero%20Orders%20His%20Mother\u2019s%20Execution%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nero<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Seneca%20Kills%20Himself%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more (feat. Seneca)<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Nero%20Runs%20Away%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more Nero<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Nero%20Kills%20Himself%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the last of him<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Croesus%20Saved%20from%20the%20Pyre%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Croesus<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Phanie%20Interprets%20Croesus\u2019%20Dream%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dream-interpretation\/-reading<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Charles%20I%20of%20Naples%20Defeats%20Manfred%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles &amp; Manfred<\/a> (a contemporary real-world example)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Fortune%20Dispenses%20Wine%20from%20the%20Barrels%20of%20Jupiter%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Double-barreled Fortune<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#search;ILLUSTRATION_TITLE;%22Reson%20Leaves%20L\u2019Amans%22;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reason &amp; the Lover: the end<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_342\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl\/en#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342\" class=\"wp-image-342 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-3.33.22-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-27-at-3-33-22-pm\" width=\"510\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-3.33.22-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-3.33.22-PM-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hieronymus Bosch, &#8220;The Garden of Earthly Delights&#8221;<br \/>(1490-1510: around the same time as BL Harley 4425)<br \/>Museo del Prado, Madrid <br \/>Image links to interactive transmedia online version<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Topic (Tuesday-Thursday): Perfect harmony and marvellous mystical marriages (2): the <em>marvellous<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Creative hybridity, monsters, conversion, compilation, confluence:<br \/>\n\u2014In an alien universe that is a different&#8212;in culture, mentality, perception, outlook&#8212;as any other strange other place, time, or world in which you\/we are newcomer outsiders;<br \/>\n\u2014like encountering and exploring any other imaginary world, including 20th-21st c. speculative fiction: games, science-fiction films &amp; TV, graphic novels, CosPlay<br \/>\n\u2014yet a world that&#8217;s as fundamentally human, curious, questing for understanding, loving a good story, and with the other usual appetites<\/li>\n<li>Ideas of <em>translatio <\/em>:<br \/>\n\u2014&#8221;Translation&#8221; in narrow and broad senses &amp; <em>translatio studii et imperii<\/em><br \/>\n\u2014See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/8b9fscwzzqktkvs\/Mdvl301-3-2.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">O&#8217;Brien field-trip slides<\/a> from week 2, shown in week 3 Thursday class<\/li>\n<li>Books, form, genre, literariness:<br \/>\n\u2014A literary history and aethetics that isn&#8217;t just one of tidy works and genres (individual independent free-standing works, short lyric poem, short story, novel, comedy, tragedy)<br \/>\n\u2014A literary world of inter-textual cross-reference in which every book is also part of a larger whole; think libraries and labyrinths, networked systems and ecosystems<br \/>\n\u2014And hybrid works that don&#8217;t look like our 2016 expected categorisations of different kinds of writing<br \/>\n\u2014Ex. short stories collected within what looks like a non-fiction treatise, a long narrative that looks like a proto-novel but is in verse and seems to have no plot, a work that is itself a compilation or collection (parallel: many of the books that contained some Martianus Capella; libraries containing many books; Umberto Eco, <i>The Name of the Rose<\/i>; Jorge Luis Borges, <i>Fictions<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Romance as a hybrid monstrous marvellous form of literature:<br \/>\n\u2014Remember the symbolism of Philology and Mercury, the role of the latter as representing transmission and interpretation, leading to meaning: but neither of the two individuals in that couple is meaning itself\u2014full sense, complete knowledge\u2014which is over to readers and their reading work. That is one possible explanation (there are others) for their <i>Marriage <\/i>looking like it lacks an ending&#8230;<br \/>\n\u2014Examples of precursor hybrids in form and content: Ovid <em>Heroides<\/em>, Apuleius <i>Golden Ass \/ Metamorphoses<\/i>,\u00a0the prosimetrum ex. Boethius <i>Consolation of Philosophy<\/i>, Bernardus Silvestris <em>Cosmographia<\/em>, the letters of Abelard &amp; H\u00e9loise, Andreas Capellanus <em>On Love<\/em>, French (and other later) romance (= translation again, including the linguistic one of reworking &amp; transforming Latin material\u00a0into a Romance-language-group vernacular)<br \/>\n\u2014See also: mini-Wikipedia &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/2016\/09\/23\/index-nominum\/\">Who&#8217;s Who in this Weird and Wonderful World<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><em>Marvellousness<\/em> and the dream-vision:<br \/>\n\u2014Examples from the contemporary cultural context (and earlier and later, depending on what comes to student minds)<br \/>\n\u2014Example in the <i>Rose<\/i>: Croesus and Phania; Cicero and Macrobius; more in week 7 (arithmetic &amp; the mid-point of the course)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_262\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-262\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-7.18.36-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-7-18-36-pm\" width=\"363\" height=\"495\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Library Harley MS 4425<\/a>,<br \/>f. 14v (1490s)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>THURSDAY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Presentation: GRAMMAR<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=HnbMYzdjuBs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slow-motion video<\/a> of a rose blooming, with (in)appropriate sound-track<\/li>\n<li>labyrinths: ex. Chartres Cathedral floor<\/li>\n<li>labyrinths vs gardens of forking paths: adventures, pilgrimages, making sense of a world (including having choices and making decisions), reading<\/li>\n<li>labyrinths and the tragic story of an innocent monster: the Minotaur<\/li>\n<li>Further close-reading of at least one passage from this week&#8217;s reading: you may nominate a passage on which you&#8217;d like to have more gloss &amp; commentary, add a comment <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/2016\/09\/20\/week-4\/\">on the weekly blog post<\/a> before 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_294\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/collection-items\/illustration-of-the-damned-swallowed-by-a-hellmouth-from-the-winchester-psalter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"wp-image-294 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/image-6.jpeg\" alt=\"Hellmouth: &quot;Winchester Psalter,&quot; British Library Cotton Nero C IV\" width=\"590\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/image-6.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/image-6-249x300.jpeg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medieval textuality, imagination, and the multiverse: <br \/>above, not &#8220;our&#8221; <em>Romance of the Rose<\/em> but how it might have been in an alternate dream-reality <br \/>(or, hypothetically, an alternative version in yet another lost manuscript that is yet to be found) <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/collection-items\/illustration-of-the-damned-swallowed-by-a-hellmouth-from-the-winchester-psalter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Winchester Psalter,&#8221; British Library Cotton MS Nero C IV<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAMMAR TUESDAY &amp; THURSDAY The Romance of the Rose and its structure (spoiler: it\u2019s a rose) and outer frame: A unified and universal grammar of love Or, what&#8217;s next after an arts education and how is it liberal or liberating?<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/2016\/09\/20\/notes-week-4\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1573970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}