CHL137: Todays class

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CHL137 Todays class

• Allusion
• Assign group projects
• Meet in groups to begin work on group projects

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Allusion

• Two types
• Thematic (indirect) references
• Direct references

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thematic

• The Dursleys are Harrys step family. They spoil
  Dudley and give him two bedrooms, while they make
  Harry sleep under the steps and do all the
  chores.

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Indirect reference Cinderella

• Cinderella is never directly referenced
• Instead, we see a familiar story pattern with
  familiar motifs and familiar themes

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Motif

• in literature, term that denotes the
  recurrent presence of certain character types,
  objects, settings, or situations in diverse
  genres and periods of folklore and literature.
  Examples of motifs include swords, money, food,
  jewels, forests, oceans, castles, dungeons, tests
  of skill or wisdom, journeys, separations and
  reunions, chaos brought to order. (from Columbia
  Encyclopedia online)

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theme

• (1) the abstract concept explored in a literary
  work (2) frequently recurring ideas (3)
  repetition of a meaningful element in a work,
  such as references to sight, vision, and
  blindness in Oedipus Rex. Excerpted From
  http//academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/l
  it_term.html
• A theme is what a text is about, what it means.

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Direct Allusions Example

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (HPSS103).

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Allusion

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (103).

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Allusion

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (103).

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Allusion

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (103).

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Morgan le fey

• Also called Morgane, Morgain, Morgana and other
  variants.
• Best known as King Arthurs half sister and a
  powerful sorceress (sometimes good, sometimes
  evil, depending on the variation)

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Allusion

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (103).

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Hengist

• Hengist was a Saxon King of Britain shortly
  before King Arthur's time, who helped King
  Vortigern defeat Scot and Pict rebels. Later, he
  led a rebellion of his own, and eventually
  founded the county of Kent. (HP lexicon)

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Allusion

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (103).

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Alberic Grunnion

• Could possibly be in recognition of 'Alberich,' a
  powerful wizard from "Song of the Nibelungen."
  The poem is mythical, but was the basis for
  Wagner's Ring Cycle. In Wagner's version,
  Alberich makes a ring from gold that he has found
  and places a curse on it against its thief. (HP
  lexicon)

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Allusion

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (103).

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Circe

• Witch (or queen, sorceress, goddess) in Homers
  The Odyssey who turns Odysseuss men into pigs.

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Allusion

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (103).

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Paracelsus

• Theophrastus Phillippus Aureolus Bombastus
  von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus, was
  born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland in November 1493
  and died in Salzburg on September 24, 1541. He
  was a medical doctor, alchemist and philosopher
  who provoked controversy during his lifetime.

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Allusion

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (103).

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Merlin

• Most famous wizard from British legend sometimes
  good, sometimes evil, depending on the variation.
  Best known as being a mentor to young King
  Arthur.

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Allusion

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (103).

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Cliodna

• Cliodna is a Celtic fairy queen of County Cork,
  who was swept back to the Land of Faerie by a
  wave. OR,
• Cliodhna who is the queen of the Banshees.

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Why? What purpose?

• Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than
  looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
  but Harry couldnt keep his eyes off them. Soon
  he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but
  Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe,
  Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
  away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
  scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie
  Botts Every Flavor Beans (103).

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Group Projects

• For your group projects, you will
  research various allusions, motifs, and themes in
  the Harry Potter novels, you will write a report
  about your research, and you will teach the
  material to the rest of the class in a 15-minute
  presentation which explains your research and the
  ways in which the topic youve researched can
  help us to better understand the HP novels.

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Get into assigned groups

• In-class work dates for groups
• Jan 16
• Jan 30
• Feb 6
• Feb 13

• Today
• Get to know one another
• Exchange email addresses and assign a person to
  set up an email list
• Carefully read the handout and directions
• Start making a plan, delegating work, assigning
  everyone a task due Jan 30, etc.