Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Friday, October 3






is for the Knight, White that is.










Hans My Hedgehog by Grimm Bros
'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak

The Little Mermaid
  • original- Hans Christian Anderson- Disney
  • Walt changed it to make it happier, children probably wouldn't have liked it as much if they wouldn't have lived happily ever after
  • But we say: give em the original, even if it's horrible
  • "I have room to contradict myself"~ Walt Whitman
  • I personally like both the happy and the sad, the happy because it has the song 'Les Poisson' and the sad because it's more realistic
  • The continuing stories of: 'The Frog Prince Cont.' and 'Little Mermaid 2'
  • realistic novel- sad and 'real life' is low mimetic
  • all stories end in some sort of death
  • "comedy is a transcendence of tragedy" ~Dr. Sexson
  • "You have to earn your happy ending" ~Dr. Sexson

Cinderella:

  • Cinderella (low to high) is the reverse of tragedy (high to low)
  • ashypelt
  • John Millington Synge: 'Irish Playwright'
  • where do these stories come from? How did they get into everyone's heads?
  1. migration- oral tradition
  2. archetypes and collective unconscious

Cupid and Psyche:

  • Venus: Aphrodite/ Rome and Greek

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