ENGL 1005H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Mane, The Bloody Chamber, Liebestod
21 Nov 2017
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No imposition of will; respect for her desires; dissolving of separate selves into one being: dissolution of the divide between self and other, boundary crossing. Overture and incidental music (a midsummer night"s dream: literary descendant of ovid, marie de france, and shakespeare, novelist and short story writer (fabulist, tales vs. short stories? (interpret rather than represent experience) I"m interested in myths - though i"m much more interested in folklore - just because they are extraordinary lies designed to make people unfree (25): translator of charles perrault (1997) Charles perrault (1628-1703: recorded orally transmitted folk tales; ancient wisdom; didactic, two strains: child and adult narratives. Bluebeard" (beauty and the beast by gabrielle-suzanne barbot de villeneuve) Fairy tales: feudalism: kings and queens; fixed class hierarchies, peasants, soldiers, dragons and magic. The bloody chamber (1979: carter: a book of stories about fairy stories .
