English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Claudia Schiffer, Goblin Market, Josephine Baker
6 Mar 2015
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That"s how she [claudia schiffer] made her fortune she sold her body like i sold mine kate. Fairytale aspects can see it as a poem about dangers faced by unwary girls becomes a rite of passage girls successful in facing the challenges. Other was to read many readers see it as a religious allegory: Laura = sinner, falls to temptation and is saved by lizzie who is a saint, christ-like figure. Rewriting of genesis doesn"t fall, rescues eve figure and is female. Rossetti had a sister maria who was more pious tale that rossetti wanted to have an affair, but maria talked her out of it poem can be looked at then in an autobiographical view. Rossetti is spinster in victorian times no outlet for sexuality creates dreams of sexuality fulfillment in writing didn"t understand her sexual feelings, so let them out in goblin market. Kunuko craft image from handout eroticises poem in image, esp. in the fruits.
