week 3

September 12, and 14

WALLACE STEVENS:

• "the man behind the myth" journalistic POV
• a parody of journalism~ can make anything happen: he makes his second wife famous even when she is a terrible singer
• journalists cannot get anything important or significant out of a an obituary
• 'carries' his wives away to Xanadu (his mythic, gothic castle) they are 'abducted' and held captive against their will
• puzzle solved by rosebud: but are we any closer to understanding Kane?
• finding the facts does lead to the myth behind it, but the journalists don't see this

animous: woman qualities projected onto a man ex) Shakespeare: 'my mistress looks nothing like the sun..."

The image of Daisy is everywhere:

• The Great Gatsby
• Citizen Kane

RAPUNZEL by The Brother's Grimm

Men are 'poor dopes':

• Winterborne
• Rapunzel' Prince
• Heathcliff

Woman waiting for her:

• 'knight in shining armor'
• 'rescuer'
• 'prince charming'
• 'xanadu'

'she sang beyond the genius of the sea'

old crow, the mother, the maiden-> hell 'weaving, weeping, and lying'

Mater Dolorosa: the sorrowing mother

biology: women used to be asexual, so their were only mothers and daughters, and they lived in harmony... until men

'Terms of endearment' is a great example of the bond between mother's and their daughters. They were happy, until men... Flin. She first lost her daughter to a man, then to death.

FAMOUS ABDUCTEES:

• Helen of Troy
• Persephone
• Europa
• Thalia
• Donahay
• Lolita
• William Randolph Hearst's Granddaughter