• DR Q1: What is the point of storytelling? 

• DR Q2: Name three things that make Polyphemus monstrous and explain why these things are significant. 

• DR Q3: What is your initial impression of Jonathan Harker? 

• DR Q4: How does Stoker SPECIFICALLY use the fantastic to bend Victorian gender norms (and stereotypes)?   

• DRQ5: How does the groups' exclusion of Mina impact the success of the hunt for Dracula, and what is the significance of this?  

• No DRQ due. Post text for final paper to roster by 12:00.  

•  No DRQ due. Study for exam #1.  

• DRQ6 How does Italo Calvino define "myth" (see reading from 1/9)? How does this apply to the "Cupid and Psyche" myth (in its various reincarnations)?  

Topic for Final Paper 

• No DRQ due. Post topic for final paper to roster by 12:00.  

• DRQ7: Compare and contrast. How does the fairy tale paradigm for boys differ from the fairy tale paradigm for girls in this weeks' readings?  

• DRQ8: Compare and contrast. How does the supernatural function in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"? How does the supernatural function in Freeman's "Lost Ghost"? What are the differences? What are the similarities? 

• DRQ9: Haunting signifies different things in different regions of the United States. How does haunting function in Southern Gothic fiction (that you read today) as opposed to the New England ghost stories (from Monday)?   

• DRQ10: The author Joseph Conrad is known for his cynical realism. His writing typically rejects the supernatural or fantastic and instead focuses upon representations of reality that seem factual rather than romanticized. However, in "An Outpost of Progress," Conrad uses the fantastic (or supernatural) to make a point about human depravity.  

• No DRQ due. Post THREE outside sources for your paper to your roster page by noon today.

• DRQ11 BOTH Tanizaki and de Maupassant wrestle with gender roles and stereotypes in their short fiction. They reflect cultures that were OVERTLY struggling to define the roles of women in society.

• No DRQ due. Thesis for final paper due to roster pages by noon today.  

• DRQ 12 will be an in-class activity (worth 10pts). 

• DRQ13 In The Tempest Shakespeare analyzed the purpose of the fantastic in drama. 

• DRQ14 How does the silver screen utilize the imagination of the viewer along with cinematic tropes to create a fantastic imaginary space in which the plot of the movie may unfold? 

• DRQ15 How does the fantastic function in Poe's poem "The Raven"? How is it different from the fantastic in "The Tell-Tale Heart"? How is it the same? What does this tell us about the significance of genre?