In-class Notes

6/6/07

Vocabulary:
-Prosody: The technical aspect of literature. How we pay attention to a text.
-Allusion: referance to something else.
-Limerick: A kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.
-Maiden: A girl or young unmarried woman; maid.
-Metamorphoses: A complete change of form, structure, or substance

*Gone With the Wind
*War and Peace

*Three Poems:
1)Disallusionment at 10:00
2)To His Coy Mistress
3) Sonet #73


*All literature is a retelling of another piece:
-The Princess and the tin box.
*We think we know what she is going to choose based on fairy tales we have heard in the past, but at the end we are surprised to find that she chooses the rich prince
-It's only comedy if you know what the joke is.
*If you don't get it, you don't know anything.
*If you do get it, you should feel smart for knowing why it is funny.

*Simpsons
-Allusion, knowing when something is funny.
-in Shrek you need to be familiar with allusions
*Well known fairy tales are made modern and re-enacted in this movie.
-Limericks, they are known for being "dirty"

*End of Cluster's of Little Red Riding Hood
-Bettenheim (will be on test)
*April and Franise essays, pg. 668
*Thesis is that the version with the moral at the end, Bettenheim doesn't like that. He thinks that stories should not be sensored, they are meant to teach something to someone. He thinks that you should not "romanticize" it.
*First one= "the cathedral is tall"
-This paper is too dry. It is bland and doesn't look deeply enough into the meaning of the story.
*Second one= Dr. Sexson's favorite
-This paper doesn't sugar coat what they are trying to get across.
-Going into the belly of the beast, it will change you. When Little Red Riding Hood is eaten it is to make children think about the decisions they make.
-If Little Red Riding Hood doesn't learn, she will end up "eating" herself.

*What is a maiden?
-Used to represent a virgin.
-We still ask women what their maiden name is, but we mean it in a different way now.

*Metamorphoses
-everything changes and nothing dies.
-Transmigration of change.
-Ovid-retelling of old stories
-Child who was half bull/half human-line of terror.


*Transformations
-Transformation of story teller- he will live on forever.
*If you leave something is writing, you will never die.
*When you write it down-it lives forever.

*Icarus and Dedalus, pg. 855
-Wings burned off.
-Metamorphoses, arachnaphobia came from this story.
*arachnaphobia: fear of spiders
-Red Wheel Barrel
*Sick little girl.
*Last thing she would see.