EN201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Little Red Riding Hood, Sodomy, Wild Beasts
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Myan: the stories a culture tells itself to make meaning. Idealization of childhood: 1812 grimm"s tales published (misleading, william wordsworth: intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood, our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life"s star, But trailing clouds of glory do we come. But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, The youth, who daily farther from the east. At length the man perceives it die away, Cummings poem discussed in class shows how old age warns young to slow down and not grow old so fast, etc. Labeled as repressed sexually and creatively (foucault has a few things to say about this) Children no longer seen as "little adults" but as something else entirely. Gender (1830"s and 40s women fight back for rights. 1865 alice in wonderland & 1871 through the looking glass.
