3/29/2010

The Donor:
There is always someone that donates something to the story that is worked on, Ulmer shows us this on page 180 by saying that "The form and experience of narrative are a relay for understanding the combined tasks of consulting and designing the wide image. The protagonists or heroes of tales or stories cannot solve by themselves the problem or conflict that caused them to leave home and enter the special world of adventure. Invariably they find their way to some gathering place".
The prison-house of language:
Ulmer goes into more detail on the tale on page 184 "The basic tale begins with either injury to a victim or the lack of some important object. Thus, at the very beginning, the end result is given: it will consist in the retribution for the injury or the acquisition of the thing lacked"
The political unconscious:
Ulmer also says on page 184 that "We can better appreciate the usefulness of actanial reduction, if we reflect for instance on the character of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, a figure whose ambiguous nature has remained an enigma for intuitive or impressionizing, essentially representation criticism, which can only seek to resolve the ambiguity in some way"
Ulmer tries to show us how we should instigate these principles on page 186 by saying that "Value: the first insight to be drawn from Jameson’s analysis of the donor “actant” is to look outside any particular narrative and in our context outside the institution of Entertainment, to another dimension of popcycle in order to understand the forces shaping the diegesis or dramatic world of the story"
Ficelle:
"Jameson suggested the strategy of displacement away from the hero to the supporting cast, in order to find an alternative to the ideological or interpolative default mood of a text". Here on page 195 Ulmer shows us the separation of the hero from his support system.
Riddles of Sense:
"The Donor test the hero by posing riddles. The logic of riddles manifest the basic structure of conductive sense through which the hero may receive the magic tool". On page 196 Ulmer shows some insight to the test that the hero will face.