John, I'm a section man too but for the life of me, I can't figure out what you are really saying...perhaps because I ignorantly don't know who "kenny" refers to...maybe that will start me on a more clear reading path...will On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, john v. omlor wrote: > Hello, > > I've been reading the recent discussions on the list about Literary > Criticism and deconstruction and other assorted academic topics. I thought > I might share with those interested the title and the first line or two of > the paper I'm just finishing for SAMLA (the big Lit. Crit. conference this > Fall here in the South). > > ****************************************** > > > -- "You Bastards!": Kenny as Christ and the Myth of Repetitive Resurrection -- > > > >From Northrop Frye's *Anatomy of Criticsm* and the circles that weave myth > into culture in Joseph Campbell through Derrida's *Circumfession*, > Delueze's *Difference and Repetition* or Foucault's re-writing of > Nietzsche's genealogical histories; from Medieval theology to Jung's > mythological structures of the unconscious; and from Disney's *Snow White* > to Disney's "The Circle of Life", narratives of repetition and resurrection > have been inevitably linked to literature, psychology, history, theology > and cute little cartoon characters. This entire progression, so Hegelian > in its movement and yet so resistant to and even subversive of the > transcendentalizing triangles of dialectics, reaches its historical and > theo-philosophical climax in the excessive deaths and spec(tac)ular > resurrections of the new Christ of our age, the mysterious, parka-wrapped > Kenny, whose very voice positions itself problematically between the > intelligible and the unheard, between the innocent and the obscene, between > the manic fast-forward of hyperspeed and the naive yet ironic child-like > blindess of the sage. > > > ****************************************** > > It could go anywhere from there... > > > OB Salinger Comment: So what do you think... *Is* there an American > *Zetgeist*? > > > Your hard working section-man, > > --John > > >