tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post4312129737497277399..comments2024-03-26T01:10:13.720+00:00Comments on Teach Me Tonight: Clouds of GloryE. M. Selingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-81346557580714988912013-05-03T21:47:34.031+01:002013-05-03T21:47:34.031+01:00You've out-Donne me, Laura!You've out-Donne me, Laura! E. M. Selingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-66700922909837640972013-05-03T21:38:32.144+01:002013-05-03T21:38:32.144+01:00Perhaps in what remains "Before, behind, betw...Perhaps in what remains "Before, behind, between, above, below.<br />O, my America"?Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-10939930417984471812013-05-03T21:32:23.808+01:002013-05-03T21:32:23.808+01:00Indeed! "A sleep and a forgetting." Bu...Indeed! "A sleep and a forgetting." But perhaps James is trying to "find / Strength in what remains behind"? E. M. Selingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-46814212872082511222013-05-03T21:22:07.936+01:002013-05-03T21:22:07.936+01:00I don't think this is what you meant but, to p...I don't think this is what you meant but, to play devil's advocate, I suppose one could argue that genre romance is "trailing clouds of glory" because "Any history of the romance will in one sense be a record of decadence" (Beer 1).<br /><br />---<br />Beer, Gillian. <i>The Romance</i>. London: Methuen, 1970.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-82249079446186420442013-05-03T20:40:45.259+01:002013-05-03T20:40:45.259+01:00Well, we never got to the topic in class, but I wo...Well, we never got to the topic in class, but I wonder whether there might not be a way to talk about the genre of romance as "trailing clouds of glory," in this context. Also, the hero of this novel is obsessed with light, and there are a number of discussions of light which might be metafictional--that's a point of connection to the poem, which also talks about "the light, and whence it flows." E. M. Selingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.com