litdesire2019b

                                            Is the Wife of Baths Tale a feminist piece of work? The Wife of Baths Tale derives from Chaucer’s Cantebury Tales, a collection from 1387. In the Wife of Baths Tale and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnalle there   is the common theme of the “loathly lady” which was apart of many fabulas in medival times. Tales revolving around the loathly lady focus on a respected king, or knight who must face the test of pursuing an unattractive woman so that he can claim sovereignty of the land. This theme originates from Celtic mythology, where the loathly lady harbours the figure of a goddess and higher power. This correlation between ugliness and sovereignty holds a sense of subconscious feminism in my opinion, in terms o...

Week 10-12 February 25, 2019 Modernism What does  The Wasteland  mean (Lol)? OK, well, let's unpack that: 1. How has it been interpreted? Use citations. 2. What are some of its key features? 3. In what ways has it been influential?? PoMo 1. What common qualities do the "Beats" share? Why were they so-named? 2. On what grounds was Ginsberg's HOWL accused of being obscene, and on what grounds was it defended? 3. In what ways are Beat poetry and rap linked? 4. How was Bob Dylan's song Master of War involved in controversy during the Bush administration? 5. What were the links between black protest music and revolutionary political movements, such as the Black Panthers, in the 1960s and how did things play out then and into the 1970s? 6. Identity some linked themes in rap of the 1980s from the period of the previous questions. 7. What kinda protest song/rap/other media have come out in the last decade? Is there a spirit of protest an...

1. How is the Romantic notion of the Sublime reflected in the texts under consideration in this Romanticism reader? Discuss one or two examples from Blake's  Songs of Innocence  and  Songs of Experience . 2. How do Blake and Rousseau's ideas align and differ (themes to consider are slavery, religion and education)? 3. See what you can find out anything about what really happened at the Villa Diodati that fateful summer in 1816... 4. How many fictional accounts (film and other narrative media) can you find about that? Provide some useful links, including Youtube clips (hint: for a start try Ken Russel Gothic on Youtube). 5. Discuss the links between the Villa Diodati "brat-pack" and the birth of Gothic as a modern genre with reference to specific texts by the authors who gathered there and subsequent texts (e.g.  The Vampire  >>  Dracula , etc). 7. How does Frankenstein a) reference the Bible, b) foreshadow the Death of God and c) j...