Last day: Friday, December 12

Individual Presentations:

Lynn:

• youtube video on her blog
• images as text (Carroll and Tenniel-> Mary Blair-> surrealist painter from the 1920's)
• balancing of opposites
• connections between all illustrators of Alice

Montana:

• curiosity of Lyra, Dorothy and Alice
• etymology= care and cure
• you must care for something/ someone in every story
• not always good- female curiosity leads to trouble (Bluebeard)

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For Exam:

• curiosity
• backwards didacticism: have to misbehave to learn and teach
• 'Winnie the pooh': 'The House on Pooh Corner' end quote on Rebecca's blog
• the hero/heroine visiting the land of the dead- the hero must do this: ie- Lyra has to leave Pan- theme in world lit: there has to be a SACRIFICE
• imagination is the way of traveling to other words
• the real world is the hard part- the easy part is the adventure to OZ, connecting both worlds is the most difficult thing to do

*need to know: final/ group presentations; His Dark Materials, materials from blogs

*Final: Monday, December 15th @ 8 am

Wednesday, December 10

GROUP PRESENTATIONS:

Group 5:

• movie: displaced myth
• Dorothy in bOZeman

Group 6:

• puppet show
• celebrities as oz characters
• Reese Witherspoon: Dorothy
• Oprah: Glenda
• Models: scarecrow, tinman, lion, wicked witch and posse
• etc.

Final thoughts...

I really enjoyed this class. I loved the book selection, the discussions and the way everything connected. I learned so much that not only connected to my other classes, but also to my life. I really enjoyed the group project because it was fun to be creative, and the paper was really fun to write. I will take away the ability to look at the world around me with 'child-seeing' eyes, and will read 'young adult' and 'children's' literature very differently, because after all, everything is children's literature.

Monday, December 8

is for nova zembla.




Group Presentations: Day two

GROUP THREE:

• The Surreal World Reunion Show
• Maria Tatar: Katie
• Scarecrow: Ben
• Tinman: Adam
• Lion: Julie
• Dorothy: Brandon
• Wicked Witch: Ashley's sister
• Wizard: Jill
• everyone hates Dorothy because she slept with them all
• dorothy is alice
• preggo with the lions baby
• hilarious, dirty jokes!

GROUP FOUR:

• Cheryl
• Kayla
• Raquel
• Dustin
• Aaron
• Ryan
• 1st story: drugs, shoulder angel
• 2nd story: cat, dog and bear. drugs and bar
• 3rd story: university of OZford, lion in dumpster, tinman is prof, scarecrow is super, super senior
• 4th story: in the hood, played off of 'boyz from the hood' and 'the wiz'
• all connected through a portal in the end

Friday, December 5

is for young adult literature.

Group presentations: Day one

GROUP 1:

• website with displaced myth
• hybrid animals site

GROUP 2:

• Dorothy Does Vegas and Toto Too
• set in a strip club, where people that work there are the cast of Wizard of Oz

Wednesday, December 3

is for Xenophon.











Group Presentations Cont.:

ERIN H:

• negative capability and uncertainties in Pullman
• strive for wisdom, yet uncertain
• the more you know, the less you know
• religion: do good, not evil

KATIE:

• growing up: Lyra and Alice going through puberty
• find themselves and save the world
• meet strange creatures that they don't question
• lack of love in Alice (man-love)

REBECCA:

• adults oppress the children to keep them from getting expereinces
• 'tabula rosa' blank slate theory
• 'falling' starts a journey towards knowledge

SAM:

• storytelling in 'Australia' film
• and in His Dark Materials
• "To be a person, is to have a story to tell"
• story about crazy relative

CASSI:

• 'fairytale' song by sarah bareilles
• women rely on men ridiculously
• Dorothy and Alice break the FT role and are curious, which leads them to accomplish things

DUSTIN:

• research project about FTs
• ages 18-51
• 51 yr old man: Dr. Seuss 'Cat in the Hat'
• 20 yr old man: hates a damsel in distress, but loves Rumplestiltskin
• boys were uncomfortable, women loved to talk about their favs

ADAM:

• chess game in Alice
• along with Alice's journey (dream)
• didacticism: journey of the dream, only move forward, become the queen and travel around
• separation, initiation, and return in chess

ME:

• different types of dreams in stories

RYAN:

• Pullman's themes of nature and man
• Mary and Molefa
• Pullman thinks harshly of man because of their effect on nature
• attempt at a mutual relationship is too late because to much damage is already done

JESSI:

• Alice and time
• children's perception of time
• growing up: child and adult difference is time (broad vs specific)
• white rabbit: adult; alice: child
• mad hatter: both child and adult, which explains this conflict w/ time

LISA:

• 6 degrees of separation between herself and Obama

REBECCA:

• child, portals, adulthood
• Alice, Dorothy, Lyra=> adulthood

CHERYL:

• reversals
• backwardness
• postmodern understandings are humorous

Monday, December 1

is for Walt Disney.













INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS:


BRANDON:

• beast, pioneer hero and Byronic hero
• all isolated from society, dark personality (arrogant, confident, self-absorbed)
• as a society we are fascinated by the Byronic hero
• adult lit and children's lit are the same thing

SUTTER:

• children's lit and post-modernism
• metanarratives: experiences that are given to us- a social commentary
• how to escape from this type of life?
• because we all want the same things there is a loss of depth
• parody helps break this cycle

EMILY:

• Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Flea' by John Donne connected to Zeus
• love, immortality, life, timelessness, making love
• flea, man and women= 3
• deeper aspects of love= sex
• live through art

RAQUEL:

• nonsense literature plagued her
• wants everything to make sense, and it doesn't, which is unsettling
• portmanteau: creating new language
• making language obscure leaves you with the rhythm of it- music
• experiencing nonsense should be like experiencing music
• Gould's variation #29

KAYLA:

• Lewis Carroll's life as an opening
• history: common in stories, portals and imagination
• displaced myths repeated
• does validity matter? history is biased, and has falseness and imagination
• we tell stories to get to the truth

BRETT:

• Jungian archetypes that become part of fairy tales
• Gee- archetypes become a part of us
• what we are taught becomes a part of us and shapes the way we survive and our identifies

CALLI:

• Lyra, Alice, Dorothy comparisons
• how children become adolescents
• Erich Erickson and Jungian theories
• stop thinking about the world around them and start thinking about how they fit into it and wondering 'who am I?'
• metaphysical thought- Piaget

STEPHANIE:

• portals and gateways
• using portals to change their way of thinking: being open-minded to change
• arches in architecture: gateways
• tunnel with a light: portals
• archetype in the collective unconscious: birth and going through a 'tunnel'
• 'portal to the pacific' in Seattle

JULIE:

• perception/portrayal of beauty in fairy tales
• beautiful women as heroines- children connect beauty with success and happiness because of this
• 94% of Grimm FT's mention beauty
• beauty leads them to obstacles, but then saves them
• L. Mermaid didn't get the man because of the lack of beauty (voice)
• ugliness is associated with evil in 17% of the time

ASHLEY:

• men in FT's
• 'enchanting the imagination'
• 2 lovers: aspire to teach women to be smart in choosing man, but what does it teach men?
• prince: handsome, rich, shallow, likes beauty, doesn't work (wanders around the forest)
• this romantic motif doesn't lend itself to reality
• trickster: smart and inventive, but wants to be a prince
• mystery man: Beast husband, kind, rich, handsome (steals the girl)

KYLE:

• dream-logic and dreams in Alice
• 'lucid dreaming': when the dreamer realizes they are dreaming and do one of two things: 1) vivid, controlled dreaming ensues, 2) wakes up
• Alice's idea of self- always questioning herself, struggling to define herself
• self-awareness ends the dream

ERIN:

• deconstructionism in Alice (no meaning)
• Humpty Dumpty: randomly reassigns new meanings to words
• word confusion and mixing up (white knight)
• dichotomies= opposites
• everything is backwards ie: serving cake

ERIN B:

• animations evolution
• 90's cartoons to Wall-E