Class Notes 10/6

*Sheryl - What is a child?
- Loss of imagination and having to take repsonsiblity brings us to adulthood

*The Golden Ass - Apuleius
- more of a romance than a novel, highly episodic
- Mr. Ed the talking horse draws upon Francis the talking donkey which draws upon Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream which draws upon The Golden Ass
- Roman Eros to Greek Cupid - there is a difference in images from an erotic love to a cherub
- shifting of a focus from what is being said to how its being said
- the child can easily distinguish between illusion and reality
- possible source for Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Snow White
- Psyche = soul = butterfly
Psyche is an "airhead bimbo" - MS What does it mean that psyche, the soul, cannot keep her secret? What does it mean that the soul is always too curious?
- Google Cupid and Psyche art
- The soul has fallen in love with love

*Book list
- Amor and Psyche by Erich Neumann
- Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale by Betsy Hearne

*Cinderella
- "Spooner-isms" by Jack Ross
- Perrault version of Cinderella seems too good - write a rebuttal to the moral of this story, use irony, satire, etc.