Notes 2-1

Day of displaced fairytale presentations has been moved up to February 17th. Try to keep your fairytale to a single page.
Read introductory material in all books if you can.
Additional reading material we talked about: Bryan Boyd's "On the Origin of Stories"

Little is known about the Dionysian mysteries: Daphnis and Chloe can be seen as a kind of code to these mysteries.

(pg 36) Frye: "The long standing association..."
(pg 58) Frye: "We said that in romance as a whole..."

Read Jessica Thomas' blog about the movie (and perfect romance?) Natural Born Killers (we identify with the lovers and desire their happy ending even with the knowledge that they committed horrible crimes and should be punished).

Why are works of literature subscribing to the crude romantic storyline of Daphnis and Chloe? (an example: Ada by Nabokov)
Many versions of "The Blue Lagoon" have been made and remade in the image of D&C: "wedding and bedding" convention. Obstacles lie in the way of the ultimate goal: to get into bed. How do films (such as It Happened One Night) made in more conservative times avoid the censorship and portray this? Euphemisms.

Romance and comedy are all about sexuality and, at the right moment, losing the preserved virginity.
In Daphnis and Chloe, spring and summertime are the seasons for coupling--the world of birds and bees. Biology itself is telling the story: no sense in dabbling in morality, only in propagating itself.

Story of Rapunzel--rampion is self fertilizing, both mother and daughter. Enchantress and Rapunzel have a stable relationship in tower but it takes two to tango: the prince comes along.
Virginity is used as a bargaining chip for the female? (Frye)

All obstacles to the union of young lovers are eventually won over to the other point of view: youth and freedom.
Ephesian Tales: romance as adventure, Daphnis and Chloe: romance as young, innocent love.
Virgin=naive? How does this relate to preservation of virginity?

Abu Kassam's Slippers: Don't be a miser, be kind to people, change your shoes (change your path)
What you do in this moment is what becomes unchanging in the past.