Monday, October 27, 2008

24. Miss America's Mythic Significance

anachronist- an error in chronology where something is out of its chronological time.
Oedipus
Harvey Cox- a teacher at Harvard who's done research on religion, culture and politics and written several books on such subjects.
ikon-different version of icon

symbolic hero- the one we associate as the hero or main good-person, a way we look up to others, connects to our unconcious psyches

paradigmatic- when a word that is a part of a set of elements that can substitute eachother in a sentance

the main point of the chapter: Miss America was once a symbol for beauty, and purity, and innocense. These days Miss America is similar to any other [female] celebrity. The celebrities are tracked and made to look bad after we doll them up to make them as good as possible.

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