zaterdag 14 december 2013

The Great Exception

en na de Ramayana
(en uiteraard de Verwoesting van Smaug
ons sinterklaasgeschenk, morgen al) 
zal volgen Saving Mr. Banks





en de boeken van P.L. Travers
liefst in het Engels, maar Nederlands
Maria Poppins in het Park...


want wist je dat deze Pamela Travers
bijvoorbeeld bevriend was met Yeats
en via hem de Ierse mythologie ging verkennen
en mysticus George Gurdjieff ontmoette
die grote invloed op haar uitoefende
en op haar werk!

dat Mary Poppins geenszins
(als een 'pop-up', weg en weer)
die vrolijke, opgewekte tante was
die Julie Andrews neerzette, maar intendeel...


...in P. L. Travers' books is strict and no-nonsense, asserting her unusual brand of discipline over the four Banks children in her charge. Mary is very vain and is always admiring herself in the mirror and other reflections. She constantly scolds the children for their 'bad' behaviour, especially when they point out the magical things she does, for she constantly denies she is anything but a prim and proper lady. Mary only shows her gentler side around her friends...

wat niet wegneemt dat 
(en hier vooral wordt ze voor ons interessant!)...

...Mary has many relatives, each with their own supernatural or otherwise eccentric nature, at least one of whom appears in each book. She appears to be well known to every sort of magical entity (sorcerers, talking animals, etc.) that appear in the books, some of whom love her dearly and others of whom are quite terrified of her. Some characters, most notably an impudent jackdaw [kauw] seen in the first two books, call her 'The Great Exception', meaning, among other things, she is the only human being who has retained the magical secrets infants possess (such as the power to communicate with animals) until they grow up and forget about them. Some of her adventures occur in London, others in strange realms which later writers might identify as magical dimensions. In literary terms, she might be described as a character who exists in every conceivable fantasy genre (gothic, mythic, urban, etc.) at once: There are many strange people and phenomena in the world, but only Mary Poppins is familiar with them all.


zie je (mocht je nieuw zijn op deze site) 
nu al een beetje wat huisonderwijs zo anders maakt?...



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