le Comte de Lamberg, Paris, 1813įor JFB Prelude: The Heroes and the Playwrights The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The HobbitĬover: Two Brothers, One Sister, based on an illustration in Alexandre de Laborde, Collection de vases grecs de Mr. We begin in archaic Greece, with a story which was already old when Homer composed his epics. By following these stories and the changes they underwent through the centuries Straightforward attempts to answer two related questions: 'When and why did the heterosexual ideal become normative in our narrative tradition?' and 'What was there before?'

It is a study not of the loves of real people, but of the ideal of love as it found expression in stories, stories which were often retold and reimagined by new generations and new cultures.

Straightforward examines how we got from there to here. The reason for this is also not hard to find: as it does now, 'love' in the ancient world meant the affection of equals, and given the inferior position of women in Greek and Roman society, between the sexes is not usually where love is to be found. Very few will come up with a classical example, and the reason for this is simple: when you say archetypal, it is assumed you mean love between a man and a woman, and instances of this in classical accounts are rare. (1986) The Big Picture (1989) Excess Baggage (1997) Music spectre chase | KING LEAR JET pacey gifts joey chocolate hearts in the sun | JOSEPH ARTHUR joey outside, upset color blind | COUNTING CROWS dawson and gretchen return to mr.When asked to name an archetypal love story, most people will reply 'Romeo & Juliet', although some say 'Tristan & Isolde' instead. In sequential order, the stories are: About Last Night, The Big Picture, Excess Baggage and Seems Like Old Times.įilms WATCHED - REFERENCED His Girl Friday (1940) Seems Like Old Times (1980) About Last Night. This episode is told, à la the title, in four short stories.Dawson is left a substantial amount of money from Mr.Joey lies to Dawson and says that she did not sleep with Pacey after he directly asked her.Jen goes to therapy for the first time in her life as punishment for drinking alcohol on the senior trip.The possibility of sleeping with anyone else hadn't even occurred to me -Joey to Dawson Locations A couple of years ago, if you would have asked me who the first person I was going to have sex with was, I would have answered unequivocally: Dawson Leery, that's who.

Four Stories by Marcus Attwater