Week 8 – March 26 & 28

Week 8 – March 26 & 28

Tuesday: Villains: “Bluebeard”

Read: “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)  

Thursday: Film: Pretty Woman or Disney’s Cinderella

Read: Bettelheim “Cinderella,” pp. 236-277

Blog Entry 7: This entry should be about Bluebeard as a villain: Which of the Bluebeard tales we have read did you like the most/ least? Why? How is this tale different from others we have read? What makes it special? Please elaborate and include quotes from the tale to prove your point of view; Blog is due by Sunday, March 31.

Week 7 – March 12 & 14

Tuesday: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Read: “Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland’s Daughter” (90-96)
Ann Sexton, “Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs” (96-100)
S. Gilbert and S. Gubar, “Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother,” in: The Classic Fairy Tale, pp 291-297

Thursday: Midterm Exam will cover all materials studied in the first half of the semester including all required readings and fairy tales.

Week 6 – March 5 & 7

Tuesday: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Read: “Introduction: Snow White” (74-80)
Giambattista Basile, “The Young Slave” (80-83)
Brothers Grimm, “Snow White” (83-89)

Thursday: Film: Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs http://youtu.be/5kWr9e4JN5I

Read: Jack Zipes: “Breaking the Disney Spell,” in: The Classic Fairy Tale, pp 332-352

Blog Entry 6: Watch the music clip “Sonne” by Rammstein on YouTube and compare the story and persons, motifs, symbols in the music video with those in the “Snow White” fairy tales we have read in class. What is similar? What is different? Which one do you like better and why? Blog is due by Sunday, March 10.

Week 5 - Feb. 26 & 28

Tuesday: Beastly Bride(groom)

“Fairy Tales from a Jungian Perspective”- Guest Speaker: Dr. Paul Mazeroff, Psychology

Read: “Introduction: Beauty and the Beast” (25-32)
Jeanne-Marie de Beaumont, “Beauty and the Beast” (32-42)
Giovanni Straparola, “The Pig King” (42-47)
Alexander Afanasev, “The Frog Princess” (68-71)

Thursday: Beastly Bride(groom)

Read: Brothers Grimm, “The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich” (47-50)
Angela Carter, “The Tiger’s Bride” (50-66)
“Urashima the Fisherman” (66-68)
“The Swan Maiden” (72-73)
Maria Tatar, "Sex and Violence," in: The Classic Fairy Tale, pp 364-373

Blog Entry 5: The topic of this blog entry is “A Jungian View of Fairy Tales.” What is the relationship between fairy tales and the Jungian psychoanalysis? Make sure to include what Dr. Mazeroff talked about.  Blog is due by Sunday, March 3.

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Week 4 - Feb. 19 & 21

Tuesday: Little Red Riding Hood – Loss of Innocence – Part 1

Read: “Introduction: Little Red Riding Hood” (3-10)
“The Story of the Grandmother” (10-11)
Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood” (11-13)
Zohar Shavit, “The Concept of Childhood and Children’s Folktales,” in: The Classic Fairy Tales, pp. 317-332.

Thursday: Little Red Riding Hood – Loss of Innocence – Part 2

Read: Brothers Grimm, “Little Red Cap” (13-16)
Italo Calvino, “The False Grandmother” (17-19)
Chiang Mi, “Goldflower and the Bear” (19-21)
Bruno Bettelheim, "Little Red Riding Hood,” pp. 166-183.

Blog Entry 4: Find a cartoon on-line with “Little Red Riding Hood” as a theme and write a reflection on that cartoon. What kind of cartoon is that (political, social)? How do you like it, etc.? Add a copy of the cartoon, name of cartoonist and the source (URL).  Blog is due by Sunday, Feb. 24.

Week 3 – Feb. 12 & 14

Tuesday: The Child as Hero

Read: Introduction: Hansel and Gretel," The Classic Fairy Tales, (179-184)
Brothers Grimm, "Hansel and Gretel" (184-190)
Brothers Grimm, "The Juniper Tree" (190-197)

Thursday: The Child as Hero

Read: Joseph Jacobs, "The Rose Tree" (197-199)
Charles Perrault, "Little Thumbling" (199-209)
Bruno Bettelheim, "Hansel and Gretel,” pp. 159-166.

Film: “Hansel & Gretel – An Appalachian Version”

Blog Entry 3: The topic of this blog entry is “The Child as a Hero.” Describe the role of various children as heroes in at least 2 fairy tales. Also explain the meaning of this from a Freudian (here Bettelheim) psychoanalytical point of view.  Blog is due by Sunday, Feb. 17, 9 p.m.

 http://blog.aacriminallaw.com/uncategorized/fairy-tale-law-hansel-gretel/

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Week 2 – Feb. 5 & 7

Tuesday:  Once upon a time …: History, Form and Theories of Fairy Tales

Read: Marie Louise von Franz, “Theories of Fairy Tales,” pp. 1-23

Film: The Brothers Grimm – Part 3

Thursday: Why read folk and fairy tales? Morphology of folk and fairy tales

Read: Bruno Bettelheim, “Introduction. The Struggle for Meaning,” pp. 3-19.

Film: The Brothers Grimm – Part 4

Blog Entry 2: Develop a one-page working definition of folk or fairy tale based on class discussions, materials we have read in class. Blog is due by Sunday, Feb. 10, 9 p.m.