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

Lecture Notes

SES #	LECTURE NOTES
1–4	Ellis and the Grimms; German nationalism; folk tradition; oral and written culture (PDF) ‘Ossian’, James Macpherson, and the Antiquity of Oral Tradition (PDF)
5–6	Key stories from Maria Tatar’s The Classic Fairy Tales (PDF)
7–8	Albert B. Lord, The Singer of Tales (PDF)
9–10	Lizanne Henderson and Edward J. Cowan, Scottish Fairy Belief (PDF) W. Y. Evans–Wentz, The Fairy–Faith in Celtic Countries (PDF)
14–15	Calvin S. Hall and Vernon J. Nordby, A Primer of Jungian Psychology (PDF) Carl G. Jung, Man and His Symbols (PDF) Marie–Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales (PDF)
19–20	Christa Kamenetsky, Children’s Literature in Hitler’s Germany - The Cultural Policy of National Socialism (PDF) George L. Mosse, The Culture of Western Europe, showing connections between the work of the Grimms and the rise of Nazism in Germany (PDF) Summary of Christa Kamenetsky’s Argument (PDF) Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen—The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films (PDF) Jack Zipes, Irresistable Fairy Tale (PDF) Jack Zipes, When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition (PDF)
21–22	Angela Carter—A Brief Guide to Non–Featured Stories (PDF)
23–25	Robert Graves, The White Goddess—A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (PDF) Liz Lochhead Reading Guide (PDF)