American Literature

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Notes for the Test:

  • What are the four Disney characters Deb gives us that are related to abduction?
  • The animal, primal- the wolf
  • The satyr, Hades- Phil in Hercules
  • More man than beast- the Beast in "Beauty and the Beast"
  • Prince Charming- Mr. Perfect

  • Flirtation, it's a woman's power to abduct a man. It's Daisy Miller's power.
  • Flirtation is "Dancing around the boundaries of comfort."
  • What is the name of Hazel Motes's Church? The Church of Christ Without Christ
  • What do the lion, scarecrow, and tinmam want (individually?)
  • Who or what is the new Jesus? A mumified dwarf.

  • What is the difference between the imaginary and the inaginative?
  • The imaginary is not real v. the imaginative is supremely real.

  • What did Frank L. Baum believe he was doing when writing the "Wizard of Oz?" Writing a great American myth
  • Abductors- know them.
  • Daisy Miller is a symbol for America
  • "The Master"- Henry James
  • Daisy's brother is a trickster figure
  • What was the name of Charles Foster Kane's estate- Xanadu
  • Where does the name come from: Kubla Khan, poem by Coleridge and an actual Mongolian palace
  • The Wizard of Oz can be known as a? Road movie
  • Imagination is always trying to find meaning
  • Mater Dolorosa- weeping woman
  • Zora Neale Hurston- "lies"
  • What are the levels of the pyramid? The consistent base is the myth
  • Who is Patty Hearst's grandfather? William Randolph Hearst
  • Where does Hazel Motes buy his car? Taulkingham
  • Who's the only true beleiver in Wise Blood? Motes
  • What text exemplifies Southern Gothic? Wise Blood
  • Frank L. Baum Wikipedia fact he advocated the extermination of indeginous peoples
  • Theosophist- one who believes the divinity lives within yourself it is not dediated by any institution
  • Opposite of love is indifference

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