Interpreting Texts, Making Meaning: Starting Small

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.02.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. A Story: Motive : Work :: Motif : Way, but "there is fiction in the space between" 1
  2. A Beginning: Basics : Ground :: Garden : Body, or "…walls have eyes… like mine" 5
  3. A Middle: Analogy : Simile :: Metaphor : Simile, or "a beautiful day of sunshine" 55
  4. An End: or Vision : Symbol :: Ethereal : Basics, or "to save our lives… envision" 71
  5. Bibliography
  6. Appendix
  7. Endnotes

Interpreting the Literal for the Revelational

Jeffry K. Weathers

Published September 2013

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Endnotes

1. Traci Chapmen, Telling Stories from the recording Telling Stories (2000), track 1

2. Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences, 17

3. Keith Burrows, retired English teacher from Westmoor High School, Daly City, Ca.

4. See the Wikipedia.org site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardes_(Jewish_exegesis)

5. Crowded House, Silent House from the recording Time on Earth (2007), track 9

6. Paul Fry, seminar description for Interpreting Texts, Making Meaning: Starting Small

7. Paul Fry, in a clarifying email on interpretation to YNI Fellows.

8. Paul Fry, from an email about the 'small' texts to be discussed: Robert Kraus's Tony the Tow Truck, and three lyrics: William Wordsworth's A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, William Carlos Williams' This is Just to Say, and Ezra Pound's In a Station at the Metro

9. Laurence Perrine, The Nature of Proof in the Interpretation of Poetry; from The English Journal, September 1962, 393-98

10. Ibid

11. Jerry Farlow, The Girl Who Ate Equations for Breakfast, 124: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26895212/The-Girl-Who-Ate-Equations-for-Breakfast

12. Krista Baxter Waldron, YNI 2013 Fellow in Invisible Cities seminar

13. Rueben Arthur Brower, The Fields of Light, An Experiment in Critical Reading, xi

14. William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems, 10

15. Rueben Arthur Brower, The Fields of Light, An Experiment in Critical Reading, xii

16. See the poets.org site: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15830

17. Günter Wilhelm Grass, from In the Egg; also, see (mis)interpretations run amok: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/08/gunter-grass-barred-from-israel

18. See: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-dropped-so-low-in-my-regard-2/

19. See the Bing.com site: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=iceberg+model+theory&qpvt=iceberg+model+theory&FORM=IGRE

20. See U.S. Department of Education site: http://www.ed.gov/blog/2013/01/high-school-graduation-rate-at-highest-level-in-three-decades/

21. Rueben Arthur Brower, The Fields of Light, An Experiment in Critical Reading, 5

22. Ibid, 8

23. Ibid, 10

24. Ibid, 10

25. Ibid, 10

26. Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought Language as Window into Human Nature, 11

27. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, The Riverside Shakespeare, 1160 line 55

28. Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963, 455

29. Ibid, 441

30. Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought Language as Window into Human Nature, 217

31. Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963, 454

32. Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It", xi

33. Ibid, 140

34. Ibid, 140

35. Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963, 445-6

36. See the Wikipedia.org site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy

37. James Geary, I is an Other, 1-2; Also, see the about.com site: http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/a/13metaphors.htm

38. Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought Language as Window into Human Nature, 437

39. James Geary, I is an Other, 172-3

40. Ibid, 161-2

41. Ibid, 158

42. Ibid, 146-7

43. See the Wikipedia.org site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor

44. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, The Riverside Shakespeare, 1068 line 3

45. Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences, 18

46. Ibid, 3

47. Jeffry K. Weathers and Keith Burrows, developed 2007-9 and first explained in previous curriculum: http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_10.02.10_u

48. See the site: http://www.dictionary-quotes.com/in-words-are-seen-the-state-of-mind-and-character-and-disposition-of-the-speaker-plutarch/

49. Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought Language as Window into Human Nature, 261

50. James Geary, I is an Other, 91

51. Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought Language as Window into Human Nature, 267

52. Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences, 6

53. Ibid, 14

54. Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences, 20-1

55. See: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/cecilio_and_kapono/here_with_you_crd.htm

56. New Oxford American Dictionary

57. Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila, Code Talker, 12

58. Ralf Thiede, Associate Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

59. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvina_Reynolds about Malvina Reynolds and http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_11.04.11_u for more curriculum

60. I knew the phenomenon but learned the term via a stranger on a train, Marcie Mauro.

61. Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought Language as Window into Human Nature, 439

62. See Billie Holiday's performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

63. See the bluesforpeace.com site: http://www.bluesforpeace.com/lyrics/strange-fruit.htm

64. Alice Walker, Sudden Fiction (Continued), 35

65. Anah Weathers, Treasures from the Past Secrets of the Cave, 15

66. Ibid, 12

67. W.K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Monroe C. Beardsley, from The Intential Fallacy, 2 and 17

68. Anah Weathers, Treasures from the Past Secrets of the Cave, 103

69. See the wikipedia.org site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb

70. Northrup Frye, Fearful Symmetry, 21

71. Andrew Bird, Fiery Crash from the recording [ARMCHAIR APOCRYPHA] (2007), track 1

72. See the YNI site: http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_12.04.02_u

73. See the site: http://www.thehouseofcards.com/games/wise-otherwise.html

74. See her website: http://bethgrossman.com/

75. See video for Alice Walker Archive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDFiK7i6-FA

76. See the cde.ca.gov site: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/

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