Class Summary for 09/29/09

1st Exam, 8th of October
Read to Chapter 3 in Northrop Frye.

• Cheat Sheet for Odysseus Scar.
• Hermeneutics
• "Cities of the Plain" (Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen 19)
• Marcel Proust, Cormac McCarthy
• Kierkegard - Fear and Trembling
• NEVER SAY "JUST"
• Abraham talks down God!
• Lot's Wife!
• Orpheus, Actaeon
• Literalism in the bible?
• Issac isn't really that exciting (Gen 24).
• James Joyce: "Bland old Issac."
• Jacob gets the "bed trick" pulled on him.
• Gen 32.22
• Joseph is kinda of a dork; he is one of the round characters (complex)
• Joseph and Potiphars wife (Gen 39)

Little tired, hopefully will get a good blog post in soon.