HUMA 2680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Making Money, Little Red Riding Hood, Joel Chandler Harris

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Terminology: romanticism (first half of the 19th century) Freedom of the individual, self expression, spontaneity, the imagination, the natural world. Rejects the order, rationality of the enlightenment period. Uncle remus" br"er rabbit: adapted and compiled by joel chandler harris in 1881, african-american slave folklore, a trickster. English countryside and literary traditions: lack of modern technology and modernization, victorian and the edwardian periods. Visual and verbal texts: signal peter"s difference, potter breaks individual sentences into two, semi-colon use, use of white space and vignettes, pastels, natural tones of green and brown, muted colours and story"s action in conflict. E. g. he lost one of his shoes amongst the cabbages, and the other one amongst the potatoes: she forces the reader to wait for the completion of the thought until we turn the page. Terminology: personification: a figure of speech by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate things are referred to as if they were human.

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