Monday, July 26, 2010

paracosm/bibliocosm/cinecosm etc.


a paracosm/bibliocosm/cinecosm:

a high school, the student body of which contains modern versions of

females--good characters:

Viola (main character) (Robin Gudenov)
Dorothea Brooks (Cecilia Mansfield)
Beatrice (Mary Long)
Celia Brooks Claire Woodward
Miranda Anne Bellotti
Cher from Clueless Linda Durham
the female romantic lead from American Graffiti Barbara Murphy
Wendy from Wendy and Lucy Pixie Garafolo
the lead in Happy Go Lucky Molly Williams
Helen Bonham Carter Angela Sharpton
Beyonce DeQuana Quintana
Lady Gaga Ali MacSweeney
Anne Elliot Gail Delafield
Dionne Warwick LeShane Martinez

female--neutral characters:

the Anita Ekberg character from La Dolce Vita
the Catherine DeNeuve character from La Belle de Jour
Gwyneth Paltrow
Joni Mitchell
Fanny Price
Mary Garth
Daisy Miller
Molly Farren

female--bad characters:

Madame Merle
Lady Macbeth
Miss Bingley
Mrs. Hurst
Elizabeth Elliot
Mary Crawford
Rosamonde Vincy (neutral?)
the Wife of Bath

male--good characters

Gawain (of Gawain and the Green Knight)
Huckleberry Finn
Darcy
Bingley
Silas Marner

male--neutral characters

Winterbourne
Eugenio
Tom Sawyer
Fred Vincy
Hotspur
Godfrey Cass
Jim (from Huckleberry Finn)
Malcolm X

male--bad characters

Prince Hal
Osmond
Henry Crawford
Casaubon
Malvolio
Iago
William Dane
Dunstan Cass
the Pardoner
the Summoner

1 comment:

  1. Call me a hasty generalizer but I saw that you held the neologism cinecosm and I had to read some of your work. You also haven't posted in a while and I don't blame you. Coincidently I was writing about the crisis of creativity in the dystopia of creative arts when I used this word then decided to see if the person I dedicated the poem to would be able to google it. I would like to read more of your work.

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