( re: use of Wikipedia -- a valuable tool when used with caution :) Built upon the original intent of the internet -- to be a widely-available free source of information and exchange -- an ethereal library*! -- it's often a good portal to other non-commercial web resources; many fine folks (and the occasional miscreant) contribute -- volunteer monitoring helps, just beware recent unmonitored posts...
*ethereal: heavenly, spiritual; extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world (OED)
Little Goody Two-Shoes
Anguish Languish Howard Chace
Rumpole
Ovid's Metamporpheses
"a compendium of stories without which you cannot live" MS
Assignment #1 (due Fri Sept 19)
Retellings: the stories behind the story, fairy tales as degenerative/deteriorative myths
Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion
Jim Henson
the 1987 US/UK TV production The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog
Big Bird's tribute: Bein' Green
Harry Belafonte's tribute: Turn the World Around
Jean Cocteau's
Beauty and the Beast
( La Belle et La Bête 1946 series of video)
Orphee 1949 video
thru the looking glass...
La Belle et La Bête
a dream of stairs and locked doors and despair
the Look "your look burns like fire" 6/9
fathers/mothers, chess, illness/malady, promises/oaths broken/redeemed
magic, key, entrance, Trust, transport,death, Soul
"my rose, my mirror, my golden key, my horse, my glove ... the secrets of my power"
night/=day
mirror/reflection death/life
startle: to cause (a person or animal) to feel sudden shock or alarm (OED)
fear and sorrow
tears and diamonds
monsters and angels, invisible hands
the sisters
possession
rescue
torture
Diana
flight
Cupid and Psyche
Wolf
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
"you have brought such great joy into my life" BP
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