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Scholarly pursuit of the weekend: Frodo as Paglia's beautiful boy

  • Feb. 28th, 2004 at 3:48 PM
Frolijah
mollyringle
If you don't read my other journal, but do have interest in sexual personae like Camille Paglia wrote about, then you might want to see today's entry in which I decide that Elijah Wood's Frodo is a Western-classical "beautiful boy."

(Read it here. Complete with illustrations!)

Mostly I'm just proud of myself for writing something resembling a Lit paper for the first time in possibly years. Heh. Yay, pretension!
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rachel2205
Feb. 28th, 2004 04:05 pm (UTC)
You may remember reading this on my journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/rachel2205/286246.html#cutid1

I'll check out your post :)
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mollyringle
Feb. 28th, 2004 08:37 pm (UTC)
I do remember that, and was thinking of it when typing that post. :) Something about the description of Orlando Bloom as a smooth, hairless, pretty boy does stick in the mind. Hee.
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rachel2205
Feb. 29th, 2004 05:35 am (UTC)
Hee :) I admit, Orlando's not my type, but I can see why he appeals.
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dirae
Feb. 28th, 2004 07:29 pm (UTC)
x-posted accidently in the other LJ
"Visionary idealism is a male art form." - SP, p117 [I think this is interesting given your analysis of Frodo as presented in a film that is largely "male" in scope and production. Could a female conceptualize Frodo as such?]

"He (the beautiful boy) occupies an ideal space between male and female, effect and affect. . . . He is, I suggested, a secular saint." - SP, p121 [Do you view Frodo as a secular saint?]
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