Possession

influenced by Victorian Lit, T.S. Eliot, Murdock

Roland has to have the letters

Roland academically possessed by Ash

how is the present able to possess/know the past

physical/sexual between: Ash&Christabel, Roland&Maud

stuck, can't get job, sick of gf

passionate about Ash and his letters

latecomer to doctorate

name: Hero of mideval romance

name: of the past

victorian writer

Browning-like man of his time

name: snake, viscious

editor for works on Ash

successful scholar and professor

name: sexual predator/takes job opportunities

deconstructive discussions

name: ellusive

victorian writer

possibly bi-sexual

name: elegant and icy

green--colder color but appreciation for nature/life

not overly feminine or masculine

Biatrice Nest

Leonora Stern

George & Joan Bailey

Ellen Ash

Blanche Glover

Researcher of Mrs. Ash, helpmate

American scholar of Christabel, edgy

related to Maud and Christabel

shadowy, poet, important to Nest

joural-writer, paintings, friend of Christabel

from Possession

Ash

theft of apples

reflects theft of letters

from Possession

Ash

norse mythology/dieties

more scientific, issues, origins

born of sky/celestial

from Possession

LaMotte

1/2 woman, 1/2 monster

psychoanalytic

room of own (to write and keep to herself)

narrative

mysterious, powerful, scary, strange

female powers (seductive, feared)

from Possession

Roland reads it

tailor and key

woman contained and has to be freed

willing to take risk = ability to do art

from Possession

Ash--poem

subject is man who invented microscope

copy sent to Christabel and "destroyed"
really stolen and later given to Mrs. Ash 

Beloved

influenced by Fulkner

works deal with taboos

stream of consciousness, lyrical, magic realist, strong moral sensibility, multiple narrators

Beloved: griot

storytelling is survival strategy

letters, poetry, fiction composed as collage of different types of writing that has been pulled together
(Possession)

putting together a picture from differing sources/voices 

deconstructing = dismantelling powerful, prevailing narrative/authority

shift of paradigm

plantation on which Baby Suggs, Sethe, Paul D, Sixo..etc. are slaves

allowed to marry

masters listen to slaves and give them gifts

taken over by schoolteacher

owned by Mr. and Mrs. Garner