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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy@siebel.com> Subject: (urth) RE: Digest urth.v030.n012 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:18:58 > Re: the five genres of PEACE, good call Adam! It seems so > self-evident after you've said it that it seems surprising > that we haven't been using it as a mantra! What he said. And taking it a step further, incorporating something of Mantis' and a quick hack at something of my own. The generic "topic" is my contribution -- each of the major lit'ry genres has a unique way of "making meaning," but also a traditional set of "topical" concerns. The alchemical color and "subject" (my term) come from Mantis' research a little while back. Part Name/ Genre Generic Alchemical Alchemical Focal Char. "topic" color "subject" Alden Dennis Realism Childhood, Black Guilt, origin, Weer (bildungs- education latent forces roman) Olivia Romantic Romance, White Minor work, 1st ("screwball") treasure, transmutation, comedy choice quicksilver The Alchemist Horror Monsters, Red Sulphur, /Julius distortion, passion disturbance of order Gold Mystery Discovery, Gold ??? (hard- restoral of boiled?) order The President Journalism? ??? ??? ??? This tabular format will look familiar to lit majors from Stephen Gilbert's _James Joyce's ULYSSES_. I suspect we could add several other columns. I put a query to "journalism" because I remain somewhat unconvinced of Adam's diagnosis of the genre of Part 5, but I don't have a better suggestion to offer. I don't know much from alchemy, but suggestions for this column for Parts four and five: 4 -- falsehood, false achievement 5 -- true achievement, the Great Work I also believe that another "topical" column might be added, moving from "conflict" for Part 1 to "peace" for Part 5. --dan'l *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/