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EDUCATION I. from My Life and Loves (Harris) “La Batarde ” The Piano Teacher. Frank Harris (1856-1931) Welsh parents born in Ireland immigrates to America returns to Europe settles in London mostly remembered for My Life and Loves. Frank does learning: he’s action, physical. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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EDUCATION I
• from My Life and Loves (Harris)• “La Batarde”• The Piano Teacher
Frank Harris (1856-1931)
• Welsh parents• born in Ireland• immigrates to America• returns to Europe • settles in London• mostly remembered forMy Life and Loves
Frank does learning: • he’s action, physical
nice “sword”
Frank does learning: • he’s action, physical• she’s intellect, talk
nice “cigarette”
• vagina = mouth• tongue = penis (?!)• natural v. learning – he is
learning, but repeatedly says “naturally”
• he talks of her “yielding” to him but he is the one yielding
• subtle reversal of power, pleasure, control
• reward is in the future (which he knows about)
Frank does learning part II
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from La BâtardeViolette Leduc (1907-72)
• Leduc is French• abandoned by parents • raised by grandmother• Simone de Beauvoir• The Second Sex
• writes autobiography• Surrealist, poetic• really gorgeous writing
Surrealism (refresher)• founded in Paris between WWI and WWII• focus on the unconscious, dreams, the occult• belief that the conscious mind keeps us from the truth• automatic writing, exquisite corpse game, ouja boards• drugs, séances, altered states of consciousness• juxtaposing ordinary items to make the everyday superreal• the chance meeting of an umbrella and a sewing machine on
an operating table• Salvador Dalí, André Breton, Max Ernst, Giorgio di Chirico, Man
Ray, Paul Eluard, Michel Leiris, &c. &c. • aim is to discover the truth that is hidden from us by
civilization, consciousness, prudery
• this episode is set in a girls’ boarding school
from La BâtardeViolette Leduc (1907-72)
typical boarding school girls
• seasons | temperatures | flowers• topography | rooms | enclosures• temporality | spatiality | waves | light/dark• love and annihilation the earth falls away, time stops• the art of suggestion, hint, delay, evasion• dreamlike | surreal• surreptitious | dangerous | risky• the affective underbelly of education• the erotics of instruction and of the physical in learning• the body, sensuality, arousal, response
• discipline, monitor || indulgence, anonymity• push-pull | attract-repulse | seduce-assault
from La BâtardeViolette Leduc (1907-72)