CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5775
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
George Bowering English 414 Lecture 8 at SFU on September 27, 1973 #667
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Title Note:
On J-card: English 414 Lecture 8 Sept. 27, 1973; H.D. continued
Language:
English
Production Context:
Classroom recording
Genre:
Speeches: Talks
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
Role:
"Speaker"
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:11
Size:
36.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:16
Size:
32.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1973-09-27
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Venue:
Simon Fraser University
Latitude:
49.2784
Longitude:
-122.9231
CONTENT
Contents:
Side
Track
No.
Comments
One
0000
0023
(Tape begins with horrible high-pitched squeal and other loud noises)
0023
Bowering begins speaking but noises still continue
0034
Bowering begins by discussing H.D’s response to 1st World War in relation to Walls Do Not Fall and Tribute to the Angels
0050
The reappearance of ruination in Tribute to the Angels. Views poem as a process or act
0059
Thebes and Jerusalem become the major bodies of mytho-history that H.D. feeds on in poem
0101
Bowering reads section 3 and discusses the “angelology”
0121
War becomes part of process (of poem and history). Discusses view of war as inevitable part of progress (Whitman)
0132
Sections 6 to 17, main passages on Aphrodite who becomes Mary. Bowering reads section 12. Discusses goddesses. Explains that there is a balance struck up between Aphrodite (the mother of us all, for H.D.) and Amen (Father)
0162
Discusses images of beauty in relation to war, Section 17, and discusses H.D.’s two major visions in Section 23
0200
Transubstantiation image is discussed while reading Section 23
0216
The second vision first appears in Section 28. The fusion of Venus and Mary is made here
0231
The figure of Mary, explains Bowering, is not simply the Christian Figure of Mary. It is the figure of Mary as she becomes merged with ISIS, ASARTE, Demeter, etc.
0236
An ambiguous gesture in Section 29 – the appearance of Mary gives us the sense that H.D. is expanding to all the Venus figures
0247
The series of painters’ images of Mary in Section 29 is discussed
0263
The ‘Palimpsest process’ is pointed out (i.e. Mary keeps resurfacing again and again)
0274
Mary’s son combines Adonis and Dionysius, explains Bowering, during a discussion of the ‘evolution’ of religions. A lengthy discussion of collective dreams ensues
0332
Freudian dream theory
0344
Sections 32, 35, 36 and 37 are discussed
0400
Section 1 is read and discussed. The totally purified Mary, before the Church imposes its image upon her, is the one H.D. wants to see/show
0459
Section 39 is read. Primitive terror is discussed, as well as the inability of language to express or convey a synthesis of ‘same’ and ‘different’
0497
Section 40 is read and discussed. In particular, Bowering discusses the subjection of experience by representation, and the inability of representation to ‘capture’ an impression or experience. One of the oldest problems artists have had
0516
Bowering reads Section 41 and discusses it
0554
Section 43 is read and discussed
0626
Lecture ends
End of Side one
Side Two is blank
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
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