Paper topics
If my notes are correct, here's what everyone's working on. Feel free to offer one another suggestions and examples, if they occur to you. For example, if you're combing Coraline looking for your own Things, but discover some Things a classmate could use, speak up!
Lauren: Kelly Link's "The Great Divorce" and C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce.
Nick Adam: Water as a thin place in Jeffrey Ford's "The Trentino Kid" and Marly Youmans' "An Incident at Agate Beach."
Zach: Alice motifs in two Neil Gaiman-Dave McKean collaborations, Coraline and Mirrormask.
Elizabeth: The Library in Kelly Link's "Magic for Beginners" as the ultimate interactive TV cult show.
Joel: Religious oppression vs. freedom in Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment, Jeffrey Ford's "The Green Word" and Kurt Wimmer's movie Equilibrium.
Brian: Fantasy vs. reality in Neil Gaiman's Coraline and two Terry Gilliam movies, Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Jae: Portals both physical (as in Neil Gaiman's Coraline, etc.) and mental (as in Jeffrey Ford's "A Man of Light," etc.).
Keith: The demise of gods in Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment, Neil Gaiman's Coraline and Jeffrey Ford's "Boatman's Holiday" and/or "Jupiter's Skull."
Tara: A psychoanalytic reading of Neil Gaiman's Coraline -- the otherworld as a projection of Caroline's fears.
Megan: Levels of magic in Kelly Link's "Stone Animals" and "The Faery Handbag" and Neil Gaiman's Coraline.
Kate: Quests for love in Neil Gaiman's Coraline, Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment, Kelly Link's "Stone Animals" and/or Jeffrey Ford's "The Empire of Ice Cream."
Tiffiny: Names and identities in Neil Gaiman's Coraline.
Nick Beadle: Kelly Link's "Catskin" and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: "Good, creepy mama's-boy stories."
Adam Nunley: Distancing and engagement in Jeffrey Ford's Afterwords in The Empire of Ice Cream and in Wallace Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice-Cream."
By my count, this means eight of you are writing at least partially about Gaiman, six at least partially about Ford, five at least partially about Link, three at least partially about Pratchett and one at least partially about a Year's Best story -- a good range.
By my count, this means eight of you are writing at least partially about Gaiman, six at least partially about Ford, five at least partially about Link, three at least partially about Pratchett and one at least partially about a Year's Best story -- a good range.
posted by Andy Duncan at 3:34 PM
3 Comments:
This is random, and mostly for Nick. But, I watched 'Lady in the Water' last night and it was really good, and all I could think of was Nick's paper and about how water is a thin place. Anyway, I thought I would just put that out there.
i think my paper topic is going to revolve more around not simply seeking love but the quest for love as it goes hand in hand with conflict, so if that causes some new ideas or suggestions in anyone's mind let me know
Tara,
Are you looking at Coraline's adventure as her way of conquering her fears, eccentricities and shortcomings or momentarily succumbing to them? Because it can really be looked at either way.
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