EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Cheryl Crawford, Narrative Poetry, Intertextuality
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En 1002 summer 2010 cheryl crawford. Lecture 3 foundation stories june 29. Made not in particular about the binary structure or the dichotomy that comes to light when we read those two texts. The way that genesis is focused around light and dark. King has a disturbing of the hierarchy because we are told that they are both. We become more rationalized when we read king. Animals participating in their naming which moves away the hierarchy from man placed there. to animal. Kings retelling of the myth is playful not insulting. Kings is a retelling of the myth but it uses the intertextuality from the christian myth and also from indian myths. Has to do with the way that the dichotomy is brought from male to female: a socially constructed binary. If you change the foundational stories, you change the society. We will focus on representation of women in foundational stories.
