A while back, in a city that shall remain nameless, lived a media mogul, his trophy wife, and their daughter...
Dorothee Ostmeier, professor of German, stirred up her students' creativity when she assigned them the task of writing their own fairy tales, à la the Brothers Grimm. One student, Kate Fox Hayward, bound her own storybook, complete with embossed cover and hand-drawn illustrations.
Click here to download the illustrated "Wolf King."
But things really got interesting when some students took the opportunity to write post-modern versions of their classically inspired tales. These new stories are saturated with enough sarcasm, snark and Hollywood celebrity references to turn the literary form on its head.
Read "Green Eyes," by Davena Amick-Elder -- traditional version.
Read "Green Eyes Revisited," by Davena Amick-Elder -- postmodern version
Read "Fate's Fortune," by Michael Heath -- traditional version
Read "Fortune's Fate,"
by Michael Heath -- postmodern version
Read the full Cascade story.
Read the Q&A from our lively humanities roundtable and/or listen to the entire discussion.
Watch Ian McNeely's talk at Google, Inc. and read a chapter from his book, Reinventing Knowledge.
Check out the dazzling "math windows" in Deady Hall.