EN103:
Fairy
Tales
July 2010
Monday-Friday
10:40-12:40
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Syllabus
Subject to revision.
Unless otherwise indicated, page numbers
refer to Tatar's The Classic Fairy Tales.
Tuesday 7/6: Introduction: The Meanings of "Fairy
Tales"
Wednesday 7/7: Little
Red Riding Hood.
Texts:
- “Introduction” (pp. ix-xviii)
- “Introduction: Little Red Riding Hood” (3-10)
- “The Story of Grandmother” (10-11)
- Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood” (11-13)
- Brothers Grimm, “Little Red Cap” (13-16)
- Italo Calvino, “The False Grandmother” (17-19)
- Chiang Mi, “Goldflower and the Bear” (19-21)
- Bruno Bettelheim, "The Struggle for Meaning" (269-273)
- Zohar Shavit, "The Concept of Childhood and Children's
Folktales: Test Case- 'Little Red Riding Hood'" (317-332)
- 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).
Thursday 7/8: Hunger, Abandonment, and Transgression
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)
- Versions of "Jack
and the Beanstalk" by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, and Edwin Sidney
Hartland.
- Bruno Bettelheim, "Hansel and Gretel" (273-280)
- Robert Darnton, "Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of
Mother Goose" (280-291)
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Friday 7/9: 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)
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Monday 7/12: Beauty and the Beast
First
essay due.
(Click
here for a brief guide to citing sources.)
Texts:
- “Introduction: Beauty and the Beast” (25-32)
- Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, “Beauty and the
Beast” (32-42)
- Angela Carter, “The
Courtship of Mr. Lyon” and "The Tiger's Bride" from The
Bloody Chamber
- "Beauty
and the Beast" directed by Jean Cocteau (1946; 90 minutes)
- the Walt Disney production of "Beauty
and the Beast" (1991; 90 minutes).
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Tuesday 7/13: 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)
- Jack Zipes, “Breaking the Disney Spell” (332-352).
- Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs, directed by Walt Disney (1939; 84 minutes).
Wednesday 7/14: Sleeping Beauty
Texts:
Thursday 7/15: Cinderella
Texts:
Friday 7/16: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)
Monday 7/19: 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)
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Tuesday 7/20: Bluebeard
Texts:
- Margaret Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg," (156-178)
- Angela Carter, "The Bloody Chamber," in The
Bloody Chamber
Wednesday 7/21: Jane Eyre
Text: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Thursday 7/22: Jane Eyre
Texts:
- Brontë, Jane
Eyre
- Sandra Gilbert, "Plain
Jane's Progress"
Friday 7/23: No class meeting.
Please e-mail me a thesis for your second essay.
Monday 7/26:Instructional Session for Research Paper
Be prepared to identify the topic of your research paper.
Second
essay due.
Tuesday 7/27: Hans
Christian Andersen
Read in The Classic Fairy Tales:
- “Introduction: Hans Christian Andersen” (212-216)
- "The Little Match Girl" (233-234)
- "The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf" (235-241)
- "The Red Shoes" (241-245)
- On streaming video: "The
Red Shoes," directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (1938;
133 minutes)
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Wednesday 7/28: Hans Christian Andersen
Texts:
- “The Little Mermaid” (216-232)
- On streaming video: "The
Little Mermaid," directed by Ron Clements and John Musker (1989;
83 minutes)
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Thursday 7/29: Individual Conferences
Friday 7/30: Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde
Texts:
- Hans Christian Andersen, "The
Snow Queen"
- "Introduction: Oscar Wilde" (246-250)
- "The Selfish Giant" (250-253)
- "The Happy Prince" (253-260)
- "The Nightingale and the Rose" (261-265)
Monday 8/2: Class presentations
Research
paper due.