17 September 2008 Class Notes

• Added a few more books to the working bibliography list.
• Talked a little bit about Jim Henson's "The Storyteller." I have never even heard of this movie so it will be interesting to see a part of it.

• Google Iron John (A Book) and the word hysterical.
• Rapunzel vs. Jane Eyre...how alike the two stories seem.
• Take a look at William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" - "To see a world in a grain of sand..." http://www.artofeurope.com/blake/bla3.htm Go to this website to see it if you want...
• Check out the Mississippi Review for and article written by Sexson entitled "Man Reading" http://www.mississippireview.com/1996/msexson.html Here's the website for it.
• Mentioning of Dante and the "Divine Comedy"
• Talked about Thompson and his four levels. The first being literal, the second structural, the third anthropological, and last is cosmological.
• In the end of Disney's Aladdin, when the genie is taking off, he say's that he is mythology...hmm. To see this (last 5 minutes of the film) go to this website at You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nISrLus-mA
• Craving for something that isn't in you realm/reach/society...
• White Goddess (google this) by Robert Graves. There are three parts to a goddess: maiden, mother, and crone/old lady.
• Asexual vs. Sexual...Something that has no need for men or introducing an element of uncertainty/ unstability...