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September 13 | "Cupid and Psyche" | Introductions | See ARGUMENT for overall focus or perspective on literature. |
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September 20 | "Cupid and Psyche" | Discussions of "Cupid and Psyche," by Apuleius | See WHAT IS A MYTH, for notions of mythology; see also MYTHOLOGICAL AND ARCHETYPAL APPROACHES |
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September 27 | "Cupid and Psyche" | Further discussions, concentration on mythic elements | Mythic elements, such as plot, characters, setting. See MYTHIC ELEMENTS,, and GROUND MYTHS |
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October 4 | Traditional Literature | Students read folktale and fairy tale for mythic elements | For additional notions of myth, see MIRCEA ELIADE’S STRUCTURE OF MYTHS , and BRYAN S. RENNIE. (I will supply additional notes: wip); see also CUPID AS MONSTER HUSBAND |
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October 11 | Traditional Literature | Students read folktale and fairy tale for mythic elements | Discussions will bring into focus how myths are transposed into traditional literature, and how they impart meaning to it. And see IMAGES OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST |
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October 18 | Traditional Literature | Students read folktale and fairy tale for mythic elements | NOTE: STUDENT SHOULD BEGIN TO DISCUSS PAPER TOPICS WITH ME! |
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October 25 | Puritan Literature | Students will read The Prodigal Daughter and respond to FOCUS QUESTIONS | This section will show how modern religious material borrows the "true story par excellence" and its archetypal elements to underwrite its own truths. |
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November 1 | Rites of Passage, or, Innocents Abroad | Alice in Wonderland | A Mythic interpretation of Alice’s Adventures. See ALICE FOCUS QUESTIONS |
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November 8 | Rites of Passage, or, Innocence Abroad | Alice in Wonderland | A Mythic interpretation of Alice’s Adventures. See ALICE FOCUS QUESTIONS |
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November 15 | Cupid and Psyche in Modern Dress | C.S. Lewis Til We Have Faces | A reading of Till We Have Faces in which we analyze Lewis’s use of Apuleius. See LEWIS FOCUS QUESTIONS |
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November 22 | Cupid and Psyche in Modern Dress | Til
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We will also look at The Princess and The God |
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November 29 | Cupid and Psyche Undercover | Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter | A mythological analysis of Robin McKinley’s retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" <Rose> |
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December 6 | Cupid and Psyche Undercover | Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter | See MYTH ; see also <Rose> |
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December 13 | Review | Papers, Lesson Plans, etc. |
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December 20 | Papers, Lesson Plans, etc., Due | GOOD LUCK! | |
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