Monday, September 15, 2008

09/15/2008 notes

Calendar review: all subject to radical change!!!

Margaret Atwood: “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales”

Anthony Minghella: with Jim Henson The_Storyteller
AM also Truly, Madly, Deeply, , The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley

(Jack Zipes)

Beauty & Beast, Cupid & Psyche The Golden Ass
(The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius)
first century AD
Picaresque

SADIE...............................

Recipe for braided taffy
Newspaper front page


William Irwin Thompson: Imaginary Landscape
WIT.org
Lindisfarne
Esalen

Anne Sexton: Transformations
Stanley Kunitz "a wild, blood-curdling, astonishing book"
Anne Sexton poetry she found fairy tales a most potent source for material


Betty Crocker an invented persona (1921), cultural icon, brand name, trademark
actress A H Cumming played her on TV 1949-1964



Julia Child "Bon appétit!"
make an omelette







Patty Hearst
Persephone Queen of the Underwold
the narcissus














Danae

Klimt











Rembrandt












Tatar p 105: misplaced concreteness by an historian’s perspective
there is no original

bowdlerize: remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), esp. with the result that it becomes weaker or less effective ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from the name of Dr. Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818 (OED)

expurgate, redact, abridge, condense, censor

Decameron
Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men
(Zaillian)

Zauberen (German): sorceress, enchantress, magician

Sadie researched!!!!!

don’t give it away
rise to the occasion
be exemplary

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