EN103: Fairy Tales - Syllabus- Fall '12

EN103: Fairy Tales

Fall Semester 2012

Section A: Tuesday and Friday 9:30-10:45

Section B: Tuesday and Friday 12:30-1:45

Syllabus

Subject to revision.

(Unless otherwise indicated, page numbers refer to Tatar's The Classic Fairy Tales.)

Friday 9/7: Introduction: The Meanings of Fairy Tales

Text: Maria Tatar, “Introduction” to The Classic Fairy Tales (pp. ix-xviii)

Tuesday 9/11: Little Red Riding Hood.

Texts:

“Introduction: Little Red Riding Hood” (3-10)
“The Story of the Grandmother” (10-11)
Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood” (11-13)
Brothers Grimm, “Little Red Cap” (13-16)
Bruno Bettelheim, "The Struggle for Meaning" (269-273)
Zohar Shavit, "The Concept of Childhood and Children's Fairy Tales: Test Case - 'Little Red Riding Hood'" (317-332)
Jack Zipes, "Cross-Cultural Connections and the Contamination of the Classic Fairy Tale" [Sourcebook]
Author Biographies: Charles Perrault; Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm [Sourcebook]

Friday 9/14: Little Red Riding Hood

Texts:

Italo Calvino, “The False Grandmother” (17-19)
Chiang Mi, “Goldflower and the Bear” (19-21)
Kellie Wells, "The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone" (My Mother She Killed Me..., pp. 353-360)
Angela Carter, "The Company of Wolves" and "The Werewolf" in The Bloody Chamber.
On streaming video: "The Company of Wolves," written by Carter and directed by Neil Jordan (1985; 92 minutes).

Tuesday 9/18: Hansel & Gretel

Texts:

"Introduction: Hansel and Gretel" (179-184)
Brothers Grimm, "Hansel and Gretel" (184-190)
Brothers Grimm, "The Juniper Tree" (190-197)
Joseph Jacobs, "The Rose Tree" (197-199)
Charles Perrault, "Little Thumbling" (199-209)
Joseph Jacobs, "Molly Whuppie" (209-211)
Bruno Bettelheim, "Hansel and Gretel" (273-280)
Robert Darnton, "Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose" (280-291)

Friday 9/21: Jack and the Beanstalk

Texts:

Versions of "Jack and the Beanstalk" by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, and Edwin Sidney Hartland
Michael Martone, "A Bucket of Warm Spit" (My Mother She Killed Me..., pp. 254-269)

Tuesday 9/25: Animal Lovers

Texts:

Giovanni Straparola, “The Pig King” (42-47)
Brothers Grimm, “The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich” (47-50)
“Urashima the Fisherman” (66-68)
Alexander Afanasev, “The Frog Princess” (68-71)
“The Swan Maiden” (72-73)
Maria Tatar, "Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales" (364-373)
Author Biography: Giovanni Straparola [Sourcebook]

Friday 9/28: Thesis workshop for first essay.

Tuesday 10/2: Sleeping Beauty

Texts:

Giambattista Basile, "Sun, Moon, and Talia" [Sourcebook]
Charles Perrault, "Sleeping Beauty" [Sourcebook]
Brothers Grimm, "Brier Rose" [Sourcebook]
Siegfried Neumann, "The Brothers Grimm as Collectors and Editors of German Folktales" [Sourcebook]
On streaming video: “Talk to Her,” directed by Pedro Almodóvar (2002; 112 minutes)

First essay due.

(Click here for a brief guide to citing sources.)

Friday 10/5: Snow White

Texts:

“Introduction: Snow White” (74-80)
Giambattista Basile, “The Young Slave” (80-83)
Brothers Grimm, “Snow White” (83-89)
“Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland’s Daughter” (90-96)
S. Gilbert and S. Gubar, “Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother” (291-297)
Author Biography: Giambattista Basile [Sourcebook]

Tuesday 10/9: Snow White

Texts:

Jack Zipes, “Breaking the Disney Spell” (332-352).
On streaming video: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, directed by Walt Disney (1939; 84 min.)
On streaming video: Snow White and the Hunstman, directed by Rupert Sanders (2012; 127 min.)
Kim Addonizio, "Ever After" (My Mother She Killed Me..., pp. 512-526)

Friday 10/12: Mid-term Quiz

Tuesday 10/16: Beauty and the Beast

Texts:

“Introduction: Beauty and the Beast” (25-32)
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, “Beauty and the Beast” (32-42)
Author Biography: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont [Sourcebook]
Angela Carter, “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” and "The Tiger's Bride" from The Bloody Chamber

Friday 10/19: Beauty and the Beast

On streaming video:

"Beauty and the Beast" directed by Jean Cocteau (1946; 90 minutes)
the Walt Disney production of "Beauty and the Beast" (1991; 90 minutes).

Tuesday 10/23: Cinderella

Texts:

“Introduction: Cinderella” (101-107)
“Yeh-hsien” (107-108)
Brothers Grimm, “Cinderella” (117-122)
Lin Lan, “Cinderella” (127-131)
“The Story of the Black Cow” (125-127)
Charles Perrault, "Cinderella" [Sourcebook]

Friday 10/26: Cinderella

Jodi Kantor, "Love the Riches, Lose the Rags" [Sourcebook]
Peggy Orenstein, "What's Wrong with Cinderella?" [Sourcebook]
On streaming video: "Ever After," directed by Andy Tennant (1998; 100 minutes).

Tuesday 10/30: SANDYSTORM

Friday 11/2: HURRICATION

Tuesday 11/6: Donkeyskin

Texts:

Charles Perrault, “Donkeyskin” (109-116)
Joseph Jacobs, “Catskin” (122-125)
“The Princess in the Suit of Leather” (131-137)
Marina Warner, "The Old Wives' Tale" (309-317)
Aimee Bender, "The Color Master" (My Mother She Killed Me..., pp. 366-385)

Friday 11/9: Bluebeard

Texts:

"Introduction: Bluebeard" (138-144)
Charles Perrault, "Bluebeard" (144-148)
Brothers Grimm, "Fitcher's Bird" (148-151)
Brothers Grimm, "The Robber Bridegroom" (151-154)
Joseph Jacobs, "Mr. Fox" (154-156)

Tuesday 11/13: Bluebeard

Texts:

Margaret Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg," (156-178)
Joyce Carol Oates, "Blue-Bearded Lover" (My Mother She Killed Me..., pp. 390-393)
John Updike, "Bluebeard in Ireland" (My Mother She Killed Me..., pp. 394-410)
Angela Carter, "The Bloody Chamber," in The Bloody Chamber
On streaming video: What Lies Beneath, directed by Robert Zemeckis (2000; 130 min.)
On streaming video: Barbe Bleue, directed by Catherine Breillat (2010; 80 min.)

Friday 11/16: Hans Christian Andersen

Texts:

“Introduction: Hans Christian Andersen” (212-216)
"A Fairy-Tale Life?: Hans Christian Andersen," by Maria Tatar (Sourcebook)
Hans Christian Andersen, “The Little Mermaid” (216-232)
On streaming video: "The Little Mermaid," directed by Ron Clements and John Musker (1989; 83 minutes)

Tuesday 11/20: Thesis workshop for second essay.

Friday 11/23: No class meeting -- Thanksgiving Break.

Tuesday 11/27: Library instructional session for research paper.

Second essay due.

Friday 11/30: Jane Eyre

Texts: