| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 2 |
Culture, Sign and Symbol |
Response essay, on Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor (2 pages) due in class |
| 3 |
Discuss Illness as Metaphor |
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| 4 |
Metaphor and Other Tropes |
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| 5 |
More Tropes |
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| 6 |
Interpreting Metaphor |
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| 7 |
Metaphorical Imperialism |
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| 8 |
Animals |
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| 9 |
Animals and Classification |
Trope Quick-pick (1 page) due |
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Roosters and Interpretation |
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| 11 |
The Human Body |
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| 12 |
More Bodies |
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| 13 |
Classification and Cosmology |
Essay with rewrite due |
| 14 |
Ritual |
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| 15 |
Passage and Persuasion |
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| 16 |
Ritual and Power |
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| 17 |
Magic and Ritual Curing |
Tropes field assignment (3-4 pages) due |
| 18 |
Narrative and Life |
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| 19 |
Narrative and Control |
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| 20 |
Folktale and Form |
Second field assignment (3-4 pages) due |
| 21 |
Little Red Riding Hood and the Freudian Wolf |
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| 22 |
Goldilocks Meets Oedipus |
Essay on Narrative (3 pages) due |
| 23 |
Hyenas and Demon Brides |
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| 24 |
Jaguars, Vampires, and Starlets |
Proppian Analysis of Narrative (3 pages) due |
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Movies on Myth |
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| 26 |
Wrap up |
Structural Myth Analysis Sketch (2 pages) due |
