[lit-ideas] Re: The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a MediaAge
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:11:32 -0400
John McCreery wrote:
> On 2004/04/07, at 21:56, Steven G. Cameron wrote:
>
>
>>**A long but interesting article condensed from her lecture.
>>
>>Essay about the visual environment for students, by Camille Paglia, in
>>the winter 2004 issue of Arion, a journal of humanities and the
>>
>
>
> I am particularly struck by the sentence,
>
> "Works that make the most immediate as well as the most lasting impact
> on undergraduates, I have found, usually have a magic, mythological,
> or intensely emotional aspect, along with a choreographic energy or
> clarity."
>
> Sounds like a great piece of advertising (and this is not an ironic
> comment).
**Yes, but... Why do some works succeed (we've discussed the "sublime"
a few times over the years on this list's various incarnations)?? If you
consider obvious selections: The Mona Lisa, Wagner's Ninth, Pride and
Prejudice, The Wizard of Oz, The Beatles' Yesterday, Hamlet, many
Mythology tales, etc.-- what do they have in common, if not some of the
concepts noted above??
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
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