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LEC #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Introduction
2Culture, Sign and SymbolResponse essay, on Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor (2 pages) due in class
3Discuss Illness as Metaphor
4Metaphor and Other Tropes
5More Tropes
6Interpreting Metaphor
7Metaphorical Imperialism
8Animals
9Animals and ClassificationTrope Quick-pick (1 page) due
10Roosters and Interpretation
11The Human Body
12More Bodies
13Classification and CosmologyEssay with rewrite due
14Ritual
15Passage and Persuasion
16Ritual and Power
17Magic and Ritual CuringTropes field assignment (3-4 pages) due
18Narrative and Life
19Narrative and Control
20Folktale and FormSecond field assignment (3-4 pages) due
21Little Red Riding Hood and the Freudian Wolf
22Goldilocks Meets OedipusEssay on Narrative (3 pages) due
23Hyenas and Demon Brides
24Jaguars, Vampires, and StarletsProppian Analysis of Narrative (3 pages) due
25Movies on Myth
26Wrap upStructural Myth Analysis Sketch (2 pages) due




 








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