Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction
2	Culture, Sign and Symbol	Response essay, on Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor (2 pages) due in class
3	Discuss Illness as Metaphor
4	Metaphor and Other Tropes
5	More Tropes
6	Interpreting Metaphor
7	Metaphorical Imperialism
8	Animals
9	Animals and Classification	Trope Quick-pick (1 page) due
10	Roosters and Interpretation
11	The Human Body
12	More Bodies
13	Classification and Cosmology	Essay with rewrite due
14	Ritual
15	Passage and Persuasion
16	Ritual and Power
17	Magic and Ritual Curing	Tropes field assignment (3-4 pages) due
18	Narrative and Life
19	Narrative and Control
20	Folktale and Form	Second field assignment (3-4 pages) due
21	Little Red Riding Hood and the Freudian Wolf
22	Goldilocks Meets Oedipus	Essay on Narrative (3 pages) due
23	Hyenas and Demon Brides
24	Jaguars, Vampires, and Starlets	Proppian Analysis of Narrative (3 pages) due
25	Movies on Myth
26	Wrap up	Structural Myth Analysis Sketch (2 pages) due