This week we discussed Laurence Housman’s The House of Joy published in 1895. Before reading the story, I was interested to see how Housman balanced the amount of authority he gives to both text and image in conveying the themes in the story as he himself is both the author and the illustrator. As discussed in the class, the proleptic nature of the image gives a circular experience to the reader as when I first took a look at the images before reading the story, I had a hard time fully grasping what was going on in the picture.