"The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture."

✒ American philosopher #JohnFiske was #BOTD 30 March 1842.

"The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct."

✒️ #JohnFiske, American historian and philosopher, #DOTD 4 July 1901. #Philosophy

‘Sleeping Beauty’ by the British genre, landscape & figure painter and illustrator, Edward Frederick Brewtnall (1846 – 1902). Brewtnall had a particular interest in Folk tales and Ballads which became the subjects of many of his paintings. Here we see his romanticized illustration of a female figure in a white dress sleeping in an outdoor bower as a curious young hunter approaches.

In the myth of Sleeping Beauty, the earth-goddess sinks into a long winter sleep, pricked by winter’s sharp thorn. All is locked in icy repose. Naught thrives save the ivy defying the cold, till the kiss of the golden-haired sun-god stirs a reawakened life.

#Reawakening #Myths #JohnFiske #Folktales

"The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture."

✒ American philosopher #JohnFiske was #BOTD 30 March 1842.