Lit theory notes

Myth

"My name is lion."
3 ways of RDC: Form, literal meaning; form/mechanic
 historic, ahistoric, or being "both" 
 latter both in time and out of time
Past is future.
Definition of "past". can also be anticipated as future. 
future is anticipated. but can't be that unless you know what has happpened
imagined a mirror; links past and future
cannot define past without predicting future and vice-versa.
jacobson arguing that works of art is from engaging third way. become constitent to each other. gives a new object.
Levi-Strauss argues that we don't to know cultural context to understand what myth trying to say.
can read the myth as is. Left to right. But to understand, need to look up and down
Synchronic reading
myths give insight of a culture and sense of historic past

deconstruction of being double-bind next time
for next class- read essay by DiFrance
