Thursday, October 9, 2008

10/08/2008 notes

quiz review on Friday 10/10 -- everyone bring one question!

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p. xvii
p. 43

compare Perrault and Grimm endings for Little Red Riding Hood
(Pavarotti, Dickens)

beast groom (King Kong)
search for lost husband
coming of age (Pride & Prejudice, Bride & Prejudice)
marriage as rape | abduction | rescue
patriarchy and property
father | senex
wise man/ wizard
fool/fearsome (Cronus)
"Two stock characters of theater are the senex amans, an old man unsuitably in love with a much younger woman, and the senex iratus, an old man who irrationally opposes the love of the young couple." Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, p 172 (wiki)


psychic participation
magical listening

Manil Suri: The Age of Shiva

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