10/20/2008 notes

"...how do I know what I think until I see what I say..." Forster
"...the poem means the poem..." Frye
"...I am that I am..." :)

tautology
circumlocution

transparent didacticism/moral earnestness
satire, irony, parody

rite of passage | the heroic journey
innocence/experience
a "small" crime, yet the world will be changed
thoughtcrime | crimethink
conformity | scapegoating | bullying

rebellion
the feral child

iconoclasm, graven images and Banbury Cross

Angela Carter: "The Tiger's Bride" collected in The Bloody Chamber and Burning Your Boats

limbo

Bluebeard's dog, cat, monkey

our retellings of Perrault's moral to Cinderella:
+++ Taylor
+++ Ashley
+++ Rebecca
+++ Brett
+++ Julie