Frankenstein:
The smart and the Myth Professor Will Christie University of Sydney
william.christie@sydney.edu.au
ELECTIVES: Advanced
MODULE A: relative Study of Texts and Context Elective 2: Texts in measure In this elective students compare how the treatment of similar field of study in a mates of texts composed in diametrical times and contexts may reflect changing values and perspectives. By [1] considering the texts in their contexts and [2] comparing values, ideas and language forms and features, students come to a heightened spirit of [3] the meaning and significance of each text. Â Students choose a pair of texts from the following list: Prose Fiction and Film Shelley, bloody shame, Frankenstein, Penguin Red Classics, 2006, ISBN-13: 9780141024448 AND Scott, Ridley, brand name Runner (Directors Cut), Warner Bros, 1982 Â
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
Milton, Paradise Lost
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
William Godwin (1756-1836)
The Myth and the Novel
Frankenstein has as much claim to mythic locating as any story ever invented by a single author.
â€" Paul A.
Cantor, Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English love affair (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), p. 103.
Terms and definitions: myth; mythopoeisis
! ! Myth â€" from the Ancient Greek mythos, or story â€" once referred to a primal narrative order featuring gods and/or heroes and perhaps involving humans that was passed down by a specific culture and used to explain human or natural phenomena, to give form to ritual, and/or to justify that cultures laws and customs. at once we tend extend that usage to include any story, authored as well as pre-literate, that expresses what is or is becoming a super C cultural intuition or anxiety.
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