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Your task on this blog is to write a brief summary of what we learned in class today. Include enough detail so that someone who was ill or missed the class can catch up with what they missed. Over the course of the term, these 'class scribe' posts will grow to be a guide for the course, written by students for students.

With each post ask yourself the following questions:
1) Is this good enough for our guide?
2) Will your post enable someone who wasnt here to catch up?
3) Would a graphic/video/link help to illustrate what we have learned?


Friday 8 July 2011

“I am all for putting new wine in old bottles especially if the new wine lets the bottle explode”

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Contents:
1 – Homework
2 - Overused ideas
3 – New Wine in Old Bottles
4 – Rewriting of a passage
5 – Cliché’s in Gothic Genre
6 – Recall of Key Words learnt throughout the lessons

1 - Homework:
(1 page essay minimum)
1. Read the “Lady the House of Love” Starts at page 107

2. How does Carter play with the conventions of the Gothic and fairy tale genres In ‘The Lady of the House of love?’
· Use all AO1 - 4
· New wine in old bottles – Make sure you include this

3. Read The Erl King starts at page 96
– Focussing on shifts in tense/person and narrative mode – what is the effect?

2- Overused ideas
Cliché: Over-used or repeated ideas that come up again and again
List as many Cliché’s as you can for:



· A Horror Film
· A romantic Comedy
· A sporting underdog story



3 – New Wine Old bottles
“I am all for putting new wine in old bottles especially if the new wine lets the bottle explode”
What do you think this means in the terms of Genres and Angela Carters writing?


This can be interpreted as being
• New Wine: The new story new information
• Old bottle: the same structure
• Explode: Angela Carter attempts to challenge the original views and create something original

4- Rewriting of Passage:
Extract from the Lady the house of love



“My heart pounding, I pushed open the chamber door. I peered into the chill gloom. A wave of nausea swept over me… I clutched the doorpost. Was this a dream or was it reality? For there, in the far recesses of the chamber, and poorly lit by the moonbeams stood…”




Now finish this off in another sentence either in:
• Appropriate Gothic style
• Not appropriate Gothic style



5- Cliché features in Gothic genre


• Dark
• Mythical
• Mystery
• Colours (e.g. Black, Red, White)
• Female victims
• Monsters
• Castle setting
• Horror/ Terror
• Isolation
• Romanticism
• Dreams
• Imprisonment
• Aristocracy (Hero/ Villain) (Byronic Hero idealised but flawed character)


Watch this and explain what this clip is suggesting
(Hint: Pay attention to what they are saying)




“Can a bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?”
What do you think it means?
Think Protean (Change frequently or easily)
Note: you can draw a picture to express what you think it means.

6 – Recall of Key Words that we have learn't throughout the lessons

• Moral Pornographer
• Inter-textuality
• Feminist
• Mutable
• New wine/old bottles
• Subversion
• Olfactory
• Latent Content
• Metamorphosis
• Binary opposition
• AnimalismTigerish/Lamish
• Protean
• Marquis De Sade

End of Blog
Hope this has helped

Thanks
Chris.张

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9 comments:

  1. Chris Will11 July 2011 at 08:46

    Carter's concept of New Wine in Old Bottles is throughout `The Lady of The House of Love`. I think she uses it to show the importance of her views and underline her aims to readers. I hope this concept features in future texts we will read as a class.

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  2. Sonny.11 July 2011 at 10:13

    Just like Chris, I also believe that the concept of "New wine in old bottles" is throughout many of the short stories. This quote also coincides with the other quote ("Can a bird only sing the song it knows or can it learn a new song?").

    It is evident that both these quotes can be applied to certain elements in "The Lady of The House of Love". For instance the character of the young officer who is "blonde" and "blue eyed" has a "special quality of virginity". This is the opposite of what any reader would expect from a old tale as it is often a young female character who is pure.

    By the way excellent blog Chris

    'Sonny.

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  3. London Academy Students11 July 2011 at 10:21

    KL blog chris. AS for the qoute i believe its a direct metaphor for Carters work :D

    aisha.M

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  4. Aleksandra11 July 2011 at 13:41

    I must say this blos post is very well organised Chris.

    "The Lady in the House of Love" beautifully shows the way Carter challenges stereotypes through her literary works. Here she not only deals with the roles of men and women but also with the issue of good and bad. The character of the Countess is an example of this as she can be seen as the "antagonist" in the story, however her remorse swayed me towards having sympathetic feelings for her.

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  5. Anonymous11 July 2011 at 16:25

    I found The Erl-King thoroughly fascinating as it truly shows that it is only through independence that a women will be set free, men shall only trap her. <---- totally agree with Cater there :P

    Esmeralda ;)

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  6. Anonymous12 July 2011 at 00:18

    The main thing that I think Carter uses to highlight the fact that gothic motifs are overused is to present those preset ideas and then subvert them such as the way she had a female villain and monster.

    Roman A.

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  8. Anonymous12 July 2011 at 00:21

    i found the story really interesting and attention grabbing

    Saways

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  9. ASA13 July 2011 at 01:11

    A thorough and detailed account of the lesson Chris. Also lots of interesting comments here - particularly strong on the idea of protean forces at work in these stories. The idea of 'singing new songs' is one that you seem to have grasped well.

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