{"id":14766,"date":"2012-01-04T07:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14766"},"modified":"2012-01-04T07:31:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:31:39","slug":"some-help-with-a-class-i-am-teaching-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14766","title":{"rendered":"Some Help with a Class I am Teaching in the Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the midst of prepping a course on mythology and folklore (an honors section) that I will be teaching this coming semester. I have pretty much decided on the general themes I want to cover, though the way I frame them for the class will be more narrow and specific than the way I am listing them here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The nature of myth itself<\/li>\n<li>Myths of origination, which I am defining to include three primary categories: origins of the universe, of good and evil and of society\/civilization (which, in some cases, also has to do with national origin)<\/li>\n<li>Myths that deal with heroes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already picked out a pretty wide-ranging reading list from ancient\/classical myths, but I want to supplement that list with contemporary movies or texts that would illustrate how myth functions in our culture now. It&#8217;s not so much that I want material that comments explicitly on myth&#8211;though that would be fine too. What I&#8217;m looking for are stories that mythologize or that retell myths or that make use myth that I can use as a way of getting students to think about how myth function in their own lives. (I&#8217;m not sure if that is as clear as it could be; much about the course is still fuzzy in my head.)<\/p>\n<p>Some obvious ideas for movies that have occurred to me, mostly because they would already be familiar and accessible for my students, are Thor, the Transformers movies, and the X-Men movies&#8211;each of which plays with myth, or at least mythic elements, and what it means to mythologize in a variety of ways; but I would also love to hear other suggestions&#8211;movies, graphic novels, comic books, literary texts. Any ideas you might would be welcome, especially those that include female heroes that I might usefully compare&#8211;in terms of origins, character development, the &#8220;heroic arc&#8221;&#8211;with male heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the midst of prepping a course on mythology and folklore (an honors section) that I will be teaching this coming semester. I have pretty much decided on the general themes I want to cover, though the way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14768,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766\/revisions\/14768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}