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<P>Hi again,</P>
<P>Sorry to those who aren't interested. Yes, the Jekyll miniseries was brilliant. I have also used Fight Club with great success. Those who are really interested in this kind of material may also want to look at Dean Brody's biography. He was a character Stevenson was familiar with from his contemporary Edinburgh, a man who was on the city council (or the equivalent thereof) and a burglar by night. He was a cabinet maker and/or locksmith by trade, which helped him gain access to the houses and treasure cabinets of his citymen. He ended up being hung from the very gallows he advocated be constructed in the city. Unlike the Henry and Edward in the upcoming TV series, he was fully aware of his double life ;-) My students have looked into research being done at the time into left/right brain theories and the relationship between the hemispheres and moral character. Interesting stuff. The left-handed, the sinister, are, of course, criminals one and all. Not much has changed when it comes to our moral make-up.</P>
<P>I'll spare you further thoughts on this matter, but if Scott or anyone else wants to exchange ideas, let's do so.</P>
<P>Leftie<BR><BR></P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Erla, et al., </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good point: The new Christian Slater series on NBC is clearly a Jekyll & Hyde update -- though, oddly, at times the producers have tried to say it isn't based on J&H at all, despite the names of the characters, the basic premise, and a bunch of other characteristics that can hardly be happenstance. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps more interestingly, <EM>My Own Worst Enemy </EM>also looks like it's taking a lot of its ideas for how to update the story from a BBC miniseries called <EM>Jekyll. </EM>I can't vouch for the American adaptation yet, since it hasn't started airing, but the British <EM>Jekyll</EM> is outstanding. (You can rent it from Netflix, which is how I saw it.) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>P.S. In a curious coincidence, the BBC's <EM>Jekyll </EM>was written by Steven Moffat, who also wrote <EM>Coupling --</EM> another BBC show that NBC liked and borrowed. In British hands, <EM>Coupling </EM>was great. In American hands, even with the scripts largely unchanged, it failed dismally. I'm curious to see whether NBC mangles this one, too. At some point, maybe NBC will just hire Moffat outright. (For those unfamiliar with him, Moffat might be described, half-accurately, as a British Joss Whedon. Or perhaps it's the other way around.) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>P.P.S. Isn't <EM>My Own Worst Enemy </EM>a horrid title? Ugh.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=teriann@ucr.edu href="mailto:teriann@ucr.edu">Teri Carter</A> ; <A title=gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu href="mailto:gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu">gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu</A> ; <A title=englecturers@lists.ucr.edu href="mailto:englecturers@lists.ucr.edu">englecturers@lists.ucr.edu</A> ; <A title=ucr.edu@unspecified-domain href="mailto:ucr.edu@unspecified-domain">ucr.edu@unspecified-domain</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi folks,<BR><BR>I thought those of you who are intersted in Jekyll and Hyde might want to hear about a new series on TV this fall. It is called My Own Worst Enemy, starring Christian Slater, about a man who lives as a suburbian husband and father by day (Henry) and some sort of shady character by night (Edward). I've found drawing students' attention to current cultural representations of texts makes them quite attentive in their reading. Let's see what this has to offer.<BR><BR>Erla<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>>From: Teri Carter <<A href="mailto:teriann@ucr.edu">teriann@ucr.edu</A>><BR>>Sent: Sep 11, 2008 7:46 AM<BR>>To: <A href="mailto:gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu">gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu</A>, <A href="mailto:englecturers@listserv">englecturers@listserv</A>, <A href="mailto:ucr.edu@unspecified-domain">ucr.edu@unspecified-domain</A><BR>>Subject: [Englecturers] ENGLISH 1C INSTRUCTORS - DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE DESK COPY<BR>><BR>>Dear All,<BR>><BR>>I believe I have the right amount of desk copies for Fall 2008, but I <BR>>am a little concerned about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as the publisher <BR>>only sent me one desk copy.<BR>><BR>>If you are anticipating on teaching Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for your <BR>>ENGL 1C class, please let me know as soon as possible.<BR>><BR>>Thank you.<BR>><BR>>Teri Carter<BR>><BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>Englecturers mailing list<BR>>Englecturers@lists.ucr.edu<BR>>http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/englecturers<BR><BR><BR>Dr. Erla Maria Marteinsdottir<BR>Department of English<BR>University of California, Riverside<BR><BR>"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein<BR><BR>"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." - Voltaire<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Gsa-english mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu">Gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu</A><BR><A href="http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/gsa-english">http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/gsa-english</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY><pre>
Dr. Erla Maria Marteinsdottir
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." - Voltaire
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