Class Notes 9/29

*Book List / Class Bibliography:
- The Hidden Adult by Perry Nodelman

*Jung – archetypes
- manifestation of constant themes that arise out of the collective unconscious of humankind
- collective unconscious is very close to Plato’s ideas of the recollection of erasures – we already know everything you can know, we have simply forgotten


*Northrop Frye – defined archetypes in primitive and popular literature
- popular literature gives us an unobstructed view of archetypes
- ephemeral rubbish = “trash,” crude literature – fairy tales, folk tales, and dreams also give us archetypes

*Man Reading by MS
- the act of reading is almost by definition, reading in – reading into the text
- when you have nothing else to say, you say a cliché, filler – “In lieu of flowers…”