Popular Culture and Narrative: Use and Abuse of the Fairy Tale

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction: Folklore and Print Culture; Links between Oral Tradition and Literary Culture
2–4	John M. Ellis: One Fairy Story Too Many; Germany in the Age of the Grimms; Perrault and the Written Fairy Tale Tradition
5–6	Classic Fairy Tales
7–8	Vladimir Propp: The Russian Folktale
9–10	Robert Kirk: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
11–13	Bruno Bettelheim: The Uses of Enchantment; Freudian Theory and the Fairy Tale
14–15	Marie–Louise von Franz, Jungian Theory and the Fairy Tale	Essay 1 due two days after Session 15
16–18	The Literary Fairy Tale: Hans Christian Andersen and After
19–20	Abuse of the Fairy Tale?: The Nazis and German Folklore, Christa Kamenetsky, and Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
21–22	Classic Angela Carter Stories
23–25	Liz Lochead: Grimm Sisters
26	Last Class	Essay 2 due two days after Session 26