"the church wants to take away your soul- literally" ~ his dark materials
Annette Kolodny (Kayla)
- ask probing questions
- radical feminist
- imaginative, daring of Adam's Wilderness
- 'Lay of the land'
- Eco-feminist
Henry Lewis Gates Jr. (Maggie) - loves Obama
- theroot.com is his website
- Alice Walker writings
- greatly motivated by civil rights movement
- was told as a child that he couldn't be a doctor because he was African American in 1929
- nature has a healing aspect
- nature used to see in poetry in general
- poetry should be made for the modern man- about the modern person
- not to depict nature, but to show them how it affects them
T.S. Eliot (Doug)
- born in America, wrote in England
- 'learned crank' described him well
- modernist
- used past to show the present
- 'in my beginning is my end, and in the end is my beginning'
- new critic
- against Shakespeare- Hamlet is flawed because of the lack of emotions
- each word and it's meaning is important
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Philip Pullman: Dark Materials
- stand back from lit
- different than Lewis and Tolkein
- ways in which the imagination works itself out
- Paradise Lost: instead of looking at the name 'god' look at the character
- demonic: Lucifer, demons
- Daemon: diomon, alternate part of personality
- church wants to take away your soul: literally
- shadow in Jung
- conflict of content, not of form/ myth
- "later poets are more outspoken"= Blake, Shelley, Swinburne, Hardy
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