Online Readings

Week 1

• "The Core Rules of Netiquette"

Week 2

• "Batman: Arkham Asylum" A very short review of Batman: Arkham Asylum.
• Movies Without Pity Read a few of the movie reviews on Television Without Pity's Movies Without Pity section. Pick the entries that interest you most. We will not necessarily be talking about any specific one of these reviews in our Monday discussion, but we will go over the site's tone, layout and presentation.
• "Review: Bringing Comic Books to Class" A review by George Dardess, published in the journal College English. The link may work if you are logged into an on-campus computer. If it does not, or if you are not logged in, then do the following: Go to the Smathers Library website, click the "off-campus access" link in the upper left-hand corner, log in, find the database JSTOR and use its search feature to find the article.
• "The Romantic Fairy Tale: Seeds of Surrealism" A short review of a book by the same name, published in the Modern Languae Journal. This is another JSTOR document, so you will need to log into our library system to access it.
• "Fairy Tale Mothers" An even shorter review of a book by the same name, published in Monatshefte. This is yet another JSTOR document. You know the drill.

Week 3: Poetry

• Metamorphoses, Bk X:1-85 "Orpheus and Eurydice" and Bk XI:1-66 "The Death of Orpheus"
• Metamorphoses, Book 10, "Orpheus and Eurydice" and Book 11, "The Death of Orpheus"
• Metamorphoses, Book the Tenth, "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice" and Book the Eleventh, "The Death of Orpheus"
• Margaret Atwood's Orpheus and Eurydice cycle
• Hilda Doolittle's "Eurydice"
• Jorie Graham's "Orpheus and Eurydice"

Week 4: Folk and Fairy Tales

• Read through some of the Beauty and the Beast variants listed on D. L. Ashliman's folktexts. Make sure to look at the Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont version.

Week 5: Folk and Fairy Tales

• For those of you interested in the use of "fairy tale" concepts in Into the Woods: The PAJ Casebook #2: Into the Woods offers perspectives on the musical from its original creators, performers and technicians, as well as an introductory overview of how fairy tales have been reappropriated in performances and art. You can find the casebook in Vol. 11, No. 1 of the Performing Arts Journal through the JSTOR database. You know the drill.
• Read Sarah E. Skwire's essay "Whose Side Are You on, Anyway? Children, Adults, and the Use of Fairy Tales in Buffy" in Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The book is on reserve at the Library West circulation desk. To make an ARES (Course Reserve services) account, go to the Library West page, click on "Course Reserves," and follow the step-by-step instructions on how to create an account. Note: If you are accessing the site from off-campus, you will need to logon remotely.

Week 9: Film to Film Adaptation

• Anderson, Joseph L. "When the Twain Meet: Hollywood's Remake of The Seven Samurai." Film Quarterly. 15:3 (1962): 55-58. (available through JSTOR)

Week 10: Comics and Webcomics

Sample Webcomics for in-class Discussion

The following articles may help you get some idea of what a "comics and adaptation" analysis might look like. The articles from the Journal of Popular Culture can all be found through the "Academic Search Premier" database.

• Farrell, Jennifer Kelso. "The Evil Behind the Mask: Grendel's Pop Culture Evolution." Journal of Popular Culture 41.6 (2008): 934-949.
• Grace, Dominick. "The Future King: Camelot 3000." Journal of Popular Culture 41.1 (2008): 21-36.
• Tipton, Nathan G. "Gender Trouble: Frank Miller's Revision of Robin in the Batman: Dark Knight Series." Journal of Popular Culture 41.2(2008): 321-336.
• Wanzo, Rebecca. "Wearing Hero-Face: Black Citizens and Melancholic Patriotism in Truth: Red, White, and Black." Journal of Popular Culture 42.2 (2009): 339-362.

Other potentially useful resources:

• Berlatsky, Eric. "Lost in the Gutter:Within and Between Frames in Narrative and Narrative Theory." Narrative 17.2 (2009): 162-187. (also available through Academic Search Premier)
• ImageSexT: A Roundtable on Lost Girls (a discussion of Alan Moore's erotic comic-book, which reinterprets several pre-existing literary characters)

More readings will be added to this page as this course progresses