tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052308.post1609690741350680545..comments2024-01-24T06:50:01.683-06:00Comments on Samizdat Blog: Tintin is my Tintern AbbeyArchambeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17273511539172747550noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052308.post-9549773687701023862015-01-09T21:57:22.851-06:002015-01-09T21:57:22.851-06:00"What kid doesn't yearn for the world bey..."What kid doesn't yearn for the world beyond the horizon, where the colors must be brighter and the streets more abuzz with life? "<br /><br />Maybe that distant yearning persists into later phases of life. I'm currently reading Yves Bonnefoy's book The Arriere-pays, which is a meditation on his idea of the elsewhere. Bonnefoy seems to be permanently haunted by crossroads -- the glowing beyond of the road not taken.<br /><br />I'm enjoying your blog, having recently discovered it. Lots of good stuff, and the archive continues to beckon. Tim Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02077264442946829918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052308.post-63302481466554831132012-10-09T05:49:59.216-05:002012-10-09T05:49:59.216-05:00Thanks for this - I need to go back and re-read mo...Thanks for this - I need to go back and re-read more closely, but I loved this entry. I have many childhood memories of Tintin too and I really relate to the idea of experiencing artistic works (and other things too) as a kind of palimpsest, the perceptions of adulthood laid over the excited radiance of childhood. You change, but you still carry your past self with you. I find it sort of heartening and desperately sad at the same time.Clarissa Aykroydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052308.post-64236105628731141982012-10-07T08:59:59.807-05:002012-10-07T08:59:59.807-05:00Ah, yes. Good point! Or rather, several good point...Ah, yes. Good point! Or rather, several good points! Thank you. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052308.post-63823940492961093562012-10-07T07:04:38.532-05:002012-10-07T07:04:38.532-05:00There are all sort of interesting questions about ...There are all sort of interesting questions about gender and Romanticism, and I'm with you in that I don't think many of them have been answered very well yet. For a while there was a big movement to find the women Romantics. Mary Shelley is a Romantic for sure, but otherwise the list used to be pretty minimal. Between the first and second editions of David Perkins' standard anthology "English Romantic Writers" a lot of women were added — Mary Tighe, Felicia Hemans, etc. They were chronologically right, and some were strong poets (Tighe) while others had been very popular in their day (Hemans), but it was, and is, a stretch to say they had much in common with the Romantic movement. And a lot of unimpressive stuff has been written about Dorothy Wordsworth, about how William had huge anxieties about her influence as undermining his poetic authority or whatever, which has always seemed to me to be utterly misguided. Virginia Woolf's passage on Charlotte Bronte in "A Room of One's Own" is a kind of a slam on Bronte, but it also defines Bronte as a late Romantic (Woolf preferred a more perfect, less ragged art than is to be found among Romantics) and I think this is a more convincing way to proceed on the quest for women Romantics than is any attempt to say that Dorothy was William's virtual co-author, or to try to make Felicia Hemans into a Romantic.Archambeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17273511539172747550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052308.post-51890004731117275532012-10-07T05:09:02.800-05:002012-10-07T05:09:02.800-05:00One of the plot-turns I was anticipating, and whic...One of the plot-turns I was anticipating, and which you didn't take, is the gender question as it comes up in Wordsworth. I tend to feel a little bit yawny when people say that Wordsworth silences Dorothy - as if ventriloquizing her wouldn't be worse - but there's definitely a point to be made that he places her in the infantile, unmediating position he used to occupy. I wonder how this connects with the de-gendered world of Herge? As a childhood Tintin buff myself, I really enjoyed this!Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094740961722725543noreply@blogger.com