is for giant.
'Brothers and Beasts' by Maria Tatar, men on fts
Iron John by Robert Bly
we are missing mythology (tradition) in our world today
E.M. Forester: 'only connect' works for literature
Brontes: Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are both fts, dd they know?
do you really want to read stuff innoceintly? Or would you rather understand? I would rather understand.
If you look carefully at the Bozo Chronicle you find very interesting stories like 'man reading' by Dr. Sexson
woman with the longest legs and the littlest man
'Fairy tales are hiding in everything we do' ~Dr. Sexson
"To see the world in a grain of sand" ~William Blake
"not just history, but herstory" ~Dr. Sexson
"Why are we talking about this in children's lit? The answer is: I don't know." ~Dr. Sexson
the amber mosquito
Dante: When someone asked him to defend what he did (the Divine Comedy, etc) lost that moved the sun and the other comets4 levels to Dantes:
- literal
- structural- patterns (connections)
- anthropological
- cosmological
Genie: 'I'm outta here. Wait a minute, I'm not history, I'm mythology'
Juniper Tree/ Rapunzel: to crave for something that you can't have
in FT's men are stupid and women know everything...
Cinderella:
- The White Goddess by Robert Graves
3 part goddess:
- mother
- maiden
- crone
- Terms of Endearment (Jeff Daniels is Hades)
- this is what all men fear
- when asked what to read to children, Sexson says 'give em the Grimm stuff'
FOOD in stories- women associated w/ women and medicine:
- Demeter: grain
- Persephone
- Pan's Labyrinth
not just agricultural, but gatherings too
Pairs:
- man and woman
- adolesent woman and prince
- twins
- mother and maiden
- maiden and crone
The one becoming two
stable vs unstable relationships: mother and father -> Rapunzel and prince
men have always been stupid: Trifles
POWER between mother and daughter
"First thing, we kill all the lawyers" ~Shakespeare, but actually he kills the English teachers first
Jurassic Park is the perfect place- asexual, filled with mothers and daughters, Rapunzel plant is the same. Although this is a stable society, it's boring, but when men enter it brings uncertainty and unpredictability and the women then have to recreate stability
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