Completed blogs due Monday

With special thanks to Taylor for letting me know!:

our completed blogs are due Monday, Dec. 8

How to Measure a Cheshire Grin?
“Lewis Carroll in Numberland”

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notes and assigments and dates oh my!

HUGE thanks to Montana and Sam who posted on Wednesday's presentations

(I was having electrical problems w/ my car and driving over the pass without windshield wipers seemed foolhardy... )

group presentations begin Friday!! groups one and two I hear :)

11/14/2008 notes

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Assignment #14: Term paper presentation
Assignment #13: Corona boxes
Assignment #12: blog Pullman

Women in Black:
overview of the trilogy by Ronnie and Sam (thank you!)

• both were introduced to the work around age 13
• both have read and re-read it several times
• both found it profoundly moving
  

innocence and experience
what is a child? what is the end of childhood? what is moral? what are morals? what is dust?
instruments: golden compass, subtle knife, amber spyglass
seeing
portals
Lyra, Will, Mary Malone

Ashley: Find Your Daemon
MS: soulmate Martha Stewart

Questions for quiz #2

Tatar book -- various endings

• Snow White
• Sleeping Beauty
• Rapunzel
• Rumplestilskin
• Jack and the beanstalk
• Frog Prince

Talbott pages

• 21
• 27-29
• 92
• 134
• 183 - 186
• 204-206

• 290 - 298

My Book and Heart Shall Never Part

Alice chapters

• Humpty Dumpty
• Wool and Water
• Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
• Caterpillar
• Question of morals

QUESTIONS:

Classic illustrator of Alice: Tenniel

Last word in Beauty and the Beast (Tatar): Virtue

Who wins after death? the worms (we may yet triumph through Art (Groucho))

Oscar Wilde: "Life imitates art"

themes of the class:
myth | dream | coincidence | art | history

White Knight might represents? Carroll himself

Parodist’s counterpart to "How Doth the Busy Bee"? "How Doth the Little Crocodile"

The beautiful food of which the mock turtle sings? soup

Hatter's riddle: Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Most quoted author after Shakespeare? Carroll

___ is a depersonalized _____ and _____ is a personalized ___
(myth is a depersonalized dream and dream is a personalized myth)

Create your own portmanteau

Who is the rudest of all the flowers?

Animate | anima | soul

Who is the volcano? Alice

Where does Alice live? the collective unconscious | dust

Alice first growth change? shrinks to 10 inches

Title of the deleted chapter from Through the Looking Glass? A Wasp in a Wig

How does Alice offend the mouse? cats!

During the Protestant Reformation, what was the intent of children’s literature? to inculcate moral values to children

According to My Book and Heart, the first Bible published was in? Algonquin

Which two animals sparked curiosity re: evolution? the mammoth and the monkey

What invention influenced the Reformation? the Gutenburg Press

Why are hatters mad? mercury in hat bands (misplaced concreteness)

Create an anagram of _____ (MS torture)

What does White Rabbit drop? white gloves and a fan

In Cocteau's film Beaty and the Beast, Beauty's tears become? diamonds

D.H. Lawrence: “Never trust the teller, trust the tale.”

Lewis Carrol's nickname inspired which character? Dodo

Tautology: circular argument “I’m interested because it’s interesting.”

Goody-Two-Shoes is an emblem of _____ (perfection) which adults lack -- My Book and Heart

If Alice is a part of the Red King's dream, then what are Tweedle Dum and Dee? ditto ditto ditto

What causes Walrus and Carpenter to weep? they feel sorry for the wee Oysters they are gobbling down

Big theme of English classes? the Dark Side (Far Side? :)

Most prolific serial killer 19th century England? Mary Ann Cotton

Two primary ghosts in Talbot book? Sid James and The White Lady

Jabberwocky poem based on which legend? Lambton worm

Last line of Alice: "Life, what is it but a dream?" ACROSTIC

Walter Pater: “All art aspires to the condition of music”

My Book and Heart: “The text informs reality”

10/22/2008 notes

My Book and Heart Shall Never Part
TOMORROW!!
Thursday Oct 23, 7 pm, Emerson
Colin McWilliams, Stuart Weber

the film runs ~ one hour
remain after for credits, acknowledgments and a drawing!!
be sure to bring your lovely tickets for the drawing...

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taking notes is harder than i thought it would be...

our retellings of Cinderella moral:
+++ Ronnie
+++ Brandon

it ain't the meat, it's the motion
lamentation


Taylor's Mystery Men and Tangible Magic
Chris as Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic
??? referenced by Tatar p. 80
the rose plucked by the father and Ben's portal
the laws of physics no longer apply
anima, animal, animate <--> ensoul

Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête
Criterion Collection
Janus Films
Surrealism

referencing classical works: Vermeer, Dore, Michelangelo's Pieta

Imogen Cunningham

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

10/15/2008 notes

don't miss class this Friday!!!

*** guest lecture by Lynda Sexson ***

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