哎, 以这样的进度到底能不能及时写完呀~ 豁出去了呀! 其实这个时候心情还是非常轻松愉快的，就是忒想找个人说话。可惜这个人有这个人的心思，不必计较不必介意，人生路上的知己可遇不可求，遇到了就努力去珍惜。自己体会体会这初夏时节的躁动，等到盛夏的时候才好抖一抖自己的叶子，说，哦，原来你也在这里。
其实除了说话，明明还有很多事情可以做。比如可以把没有建好的网站再完善一下；比如可以把周一的课备一备；比如可以做个面膜练个瑜伽；比如可以弹一弹“小矮人进行曲”，哈哈！还有只属于我自己的文字, 这是我最初的精神家园, 用这流水账式的日记帮助自己度过这段艰难时光
那么，现在还是怀着美好快乐的心情去睡觉吧，明天又是新的一天，再接再厉！
今天跟学友们讨论了一下自己的论文题目：最后框架如下
Realism and phantasy in world lit
Republic 作为框架
1) "at three removes" the platonic theory of art, mimesis, and the hierarchy of arts, metaphor of cave;
- explain the platonic model (republic, poetics)
- imitation, likeness as versus fictionality (plato's objection to homer's Iliad)
- the sense of vision and the metaphor of blindness (Oedipus, visual thinking)
- the dialectic journey towards goodness (Odyssey)
2) "at two removes" (这个部分还需斟酌)
- poetry as the sweet and the good (Sidney's defense of poetry)
- escape/illusion: Pastoral peotry; Wang Wei, Peach Blossom Spring
- Pope versus romantic poetry
3) At one remove:
- mirror and lamp: hardy and woolf
- Dream/ reality: Zhuangzi, 南柯太守梦, Freud
- The Metamorphosis, Luxun
- magical realism: Calvino, Marques, and Angela Carter
4) At zero remove: self-referential
- Beckett, Barthes...
- Godard,
- the future of image
* 给Model画插图
* intro 每写一章的时候就忘里面加内容
明天要做的事情: read poetics. 争取写完第一章.
先这样~
有两点深刻的体会希望在phd阶段可以更加注意:
1) you need to find a topic EARLY, which not only interests you, but also and more importantly, EASY enough to write.
2) you should take courses that are related to this topic.
1) though I am tackling a general/methodological topic, I still need a specific thesis. So each part will be revolving around this statement. Tentatively, my statement will be "the history of literature witnesses increasing visuality".
2) Part one, methodology; part two history; part three case studies; appendix, vocabulary list. However, in writing, start with case study and end with methodology. Besides, connect history with methodology- say, how the critics/authors see/study visuality in literature? What is the trend of changes? What are the different approaches and are these approaches related to specific time framce?
3) how to incorportate world literature into this literature/visuality thesis? Use them as examples that emerge in different time period/approaches. Refer to Norton Anthology, see how it organizes the materials.
4) How to use examples. Ezra Pound/ Tang Poetry- can be used as an example of conventional approach to read comparative arts
5) other grounds to explore:
. what are the aspects of "increasing visuality"? color/subtleties/shades (Nabkov: nobody really sees the color yellow in literature until 20th century. ask quote!); the conception of size, relative size (before Gulliver's Travels, there is no relative size in literature, big is described as big, but not how big, such as in the Farie Queen);
2. the dialogue form v.s. the picture form: in literature, the dialogue form is always preferred and adopted. I can talk about the picture form, but can argue them as "exceptions", such as Achilius's shield.
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The story of comparative literature: a group of German refuges came to America after WWII and started this interdiscplinary study to cater their need to do literature with several languages, German, English, Latin, Greek, French...They are strong in Classical studies. Later on, we see all other literatures coming into this discipline, becoming the so-called literature. And now, it is more like "field-studies" the post-colonial, the gender, the visual...and a lot more. This is the trend.
1) I need to be both specialist and know-it-all. It is good to do author studies, but it is important to keep breadth. I can choose a field that is simple and clear at this stage, and always bring the approach to the more difficult topics and newer topics. I need to have something to fall back on, and that something is ...? This is what I need to find out. 2) Keep looking at what you are truly interested in, and keep looking at the job market. 3) be versatile in what to teach! 4) How many languages do I need to be a comparative literature scholar??? At least two strong ones??? and more???
真可谓与导师一席话, 胜读十年书!
但是......
Diane Arbus 给一个摄影项目写申请的时候用了这么一句话来形容自己的主题: that will have been beautiful (那将成为曾经美丽过的)。她的镜头里有巨人，小矮人，有异装癖，有天体主义者，她搜集这些瞬间仿佛老外婆制作腌制的浆果，等着现在的不堪变成未来某一天回首的美好。时间的力量正在于此。
现在的不堪将变成未来某一天回首的美好。
也许有一天你真的会说，二十三岁的我，很怀念。