ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Rick Smolan, Germaine Greer, Himalayas
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Seing is grand or epic : kings, queens, monsters. Naion or family in a state of crisis which will be resolved by the destrucion of some antagonist or discovery of a magic object. Hero sets out on a mission(rescue maiden, redeem past wrong, ind object, ight injusice) On the way he encounters many obstacles and completes many trials. At the end of his quest he achieves personal and someimes religious or naional salvaion- rebirth: assumpions. Divisions between good and bad , mind and body . There is a divine order(if only we can ind it) Parodies of quest romance: cervantes, don quixote(1605, james joyce, ulysses (1923, monty python and the holy grail(1974, take these convenions and warp them . Topics and concern: meaning of nature , gender and sexuality, naionality, race and indigeneity, technologies of movement and communicaion, convenions of quest determine genre(on a basic level), but not how we read them .
