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httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qXCvZ0cWM-w<\/p>\n

“What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body?” from the Mothers of Invention<\/a>‘s <\/em>We’re Only in it for the Money (above), their absurdist parody of the Beatles’ <\/em>Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (“What’s the ugliest part of your body? \/ Some say your nose \/ Some say your toes \/ I think it’s your mind”)<\/em><\/p>\n

Frye in “The Only Genuine Revolution”:<\/p>\n

Mickleburgh<\/strong>: What about modern ballads and film criticism? Some people quite strongly argue that the English department should assume a major responsibility for film criticism and for teaching such things as the Beatle records. Some people think it helps to make Beowulf contemporary if you relate the Beowulf themes to some of the Beatle records.<\/p>\n

Frye<\/strong>: I think that I\u2019d actually prefer to let the student make those connections himself, because this is where the student can find an immediate sense of discovery on his own. If he can find that the kind of rock and roll records which he is going to be listening to anyway really have a family likeness in their symbolism and their imagery to the kind of literature he\u2019s learning about at school, this creates a personal discovery which I wouldn\u2019t want to take away from him and put into the regular curriculum. I teach a graduate course in university on literary symbolism, and I tell my students that they are to write essays on anything in literature that happens to interest them. One year I picked up two essays side by side: one was on the Gilgamesh epic of ancient Sumeria\u2014about 3,000 years older than the Bible; the other was on the rock and roll group called The Mothers of Invention. And I thought, \u201cOh boy, this is it\u2014this is exactly the spread that I want.\u201d Naturally most of the other essays fell somewhere in between those two extremes. (CW<\/em> 24, 165)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earlier post, “Frye ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll<\/a>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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