Popular Culture and Narrative: Use and Abuse of the Fairy Tale | Literature | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Instructor

Dr. William Donaldson

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Fall 2015

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Undergraduate

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Humanities
- Literature
  - Fiction
  - International Literature

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21L.430F15 'Ossian', James Macpherson, and the antiquity of oral tradition

21L.430F15 Albert B. Lord, The Singer of Tales

21L.430F15 Angela Carter—a Brief Guide to Non-Featured Stories

21L.430F15 Calvin S. Hall and Vernon J. Nordby, A Primer of Jungian Psychology

21L.430F15 Carl G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

21L.430F15 Christa Kamenetsky, Children’s Literature in Hitler’s Germany - The Cultural Policy of National Socialism

21L.430F15 Jack Zipes, Irresistable Fairy Tale

21L.430F15 Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen—The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films

21L.430F15 Jack Zipes, When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition

21L.430F15 Liz Lochhead Reading Guide

21L.430F15 Lizanne Henderson and Edward J. Cowan, Scottish Fairy Belief

21L.430F15 Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales

21L.430F15 Robert Graves, The White Goddess--a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

21L.430F15 Summary of Christa Kamenetsky’s Argument

21L.430F15W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

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MIT21L_430F15_TatarClassicFairyTales

Course Info

Instructor

Dr. William Donaldson

Departments

As Taught In

Fall 2015

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Humanities
- Literature
  - Fiction
  - International Literature

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Notes

Written Assignments with Examples

Download Course

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