Creative Title

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10/29

Walter Pater
-Conclusion to the Renaissance

"Most of us only have a handful of moments, the wisest spend those moments indulging in art and song." Art for arts sake.

Round
"In the end what is important is the music"

T.S. Eliot
"we shall not cease from exploration...

History and Mythology; connect the real and sureal

Symbolism of tears; metaphor for a sense of compassion and its healing powers

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10/27

Sublime: exaltion, realm where words are not relevant;

"All arts aspire to the condition of music"
-you don't ask what does it mean, but simply experience it for what it is.

Watts Poem
-busy bee, didactic and pious; irritating in its pioty

Facts: There was a girl named Alice (Alice was a real person)
Matrix eludes to Alice in Wonderland
Esotaric: not understandable

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10/20

New test on Alice and Wonderland/Sunderland, levels and tension

Iconoclasm: warning of the power of image

Jane Er; passage from B&B

-Tigers Bride, by Angela Carter

Symbol of a Rose
-eastern version is the lotus flower
-eating of an apple or stealing of a flower are not particularly serous crimes

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10/18

Literacy
Didactic: teaching morals, nationalism, etiquette, very pragmatic: don't drink from a hot tea kettle.

Humor: what is nature?

Metaphysical/Physical
speculative
-become less of a child

*"all children's lit. deals with our Adult nostalgia/idealized longing for home"*

Harriot Beacher Stowe

1.

If we show them nature, they'll think about god. (influence from protestant reformation, and gutenberg; anyone can read.
1650: John Eliot; natives of masachusets to learn to read published in Elgonquin, two world views colliding."why do english men hate snakes?" Thought process: natives are like children

Enlightenment: dieism rather than theism
Rational person can be good
Charles Willson Peter; museum of artifacts like skeletons, creates cracks in world view. Learn but don't Question
Darwins Origin, images conflict with text
Iconoclasm: shattering of the image
Facsimile: look like old one
Noah Webster; blue back spell, regularizing spelling for an american language
teaching children to think

"How do I know what I think untill I see what I say"

Notes

10/15

Q:What is the last word, excluding moral, in Debemonts Beauty and Beast
A:Virtue

designed for girls/young women
18th and 19th century
Didactic: trained, educate
A: In adams fall we sinned all (not Eves'?)

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10/8
Charles Dickons
"First Love"

Alice in Wonderland
Louis Carrol Oats: response to childrens literature as a teaching tool. He twists the morals

Arny Thomsan
Catalogue of stories: Search for lost husband, or Beast groom

King Kong: Universal Truths, such is the story of beauty and the beast

Foil: reflectors, sisters vs protagonist

Reading is: being on both sides of the pages

Animal Groom: anxieties about marriage, arranged marriage to older men, brace women for marriage, wealth over the considerations. Complexities of romance/love and marriage/euphemism. Ritual; institution of marriage (bondage/rape)

Deboumont; pious instruction, manners designed for girls and young women, so girls will benefit from these stories.

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10/6

Beauty and the Beast
Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale

Midsummer Nights Dream
Episodic:
-The Golden Ass
-Cupid(aros; powerful force of love) and Phsyche (soul; represented by a butterfly)
What's being said and How it's being said:
-"give me a copper and I'll tell you a story"
-responsibility of the story teller
Once Upon a Time
It happened and it didn't happen
-responsibility of child
Willing suspension of disbelief

Cupid and Phsyche

-3 beautiful daughters -B&B. 3 sisters
-Venus jealous -SW. jealousy of girl
-Cupid, sent to get rid of her -HMH. beast husband, invisible husband
-Orecal
-Cupid save girl
-castle, goes to sleep
-food -B&B
-sleeping/wispering; fears of chastity
-sisters, betrayel; leads to their death

*google Cupid and Psyche*

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/cupid.html