Week 14

• Brecht alienation effect: The distancing effect or the alienation effect is a performing arts concept coined by playwright Bertolt Brecht. 

       

• Performing arts are a form of art in which artists use their voices and/or their bodies, often in relation to other objects, to convey artistic expression. 

       

• The twelve labours of Heracles or Hercules are a series of episodes concerning a penance carried out by Heracles.

• Tangled /Rapunzel /semiotics phallus

        

• Danaë  was the mother of the hero Perseus by Zeus in Greek mythology. 

• Gustav Klimt Danae golden shower

       

• Vienna secession

 
        se- a prefix means away from

       secession /separate 

• C.S Lewis/ Narnia chronicles /high-fantasy

     
           

• Cronus & zeus / the wolf and the seven sheep

       

• 2012 (film) is an American disaster film.   

            

• geo- a prefix means "the earth"

       geography/ geology/ geologist

• comprehension examination 

•  G8 summit

        

• Charles Perrault

 

• Cupid&Psyche /  Beauty& Beast

         

             

• scared marriage

 

• Aphrodite gave  4 tasks to Psyche:

1. Ting out a huge pile of seeds
2. Retrieve the Golden Fleece
3. Fill a flask from the water that fills the River Styx
4. Return from the Underworld with a box of the beauty ointment of Persephone

   

•  "Old King Cole" is a British nursery rhyme.

         

• Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. 

• Chivalry is an informal, varying code of conduct, never decided on or summarized in a single document, associated with the medieval institution of knighthood.

             

      Sancho Panza is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote. 

      

• The French Lieutenant's Woman is a postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. 

• Harold Pinter was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). 

 

• Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.

       

• recommend books: 

1. Advancing Vocabulary Skill

     

    

      1100 words you need to know