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