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Housekeeping:
Agenda:
Beastly Bridegrooms and Enchanted Spouses: ATU 425 tales
Group Project:
Define the literary FAIRY TALE based upon our readings so far.
- What are it's characteristics?
- What is its function (aesthetically, culturally...)?
- How is it different from other fiction?
- How is it different from mythology/fable?
Discussion Questions:
- How do we position the ATU 425 tales within these definitions of the fairy tale?
- How does the ATU 425 function?
- How has the ATU 425 tale evolved?
- Do these evolutions push the boundaries of the fairy tale genre?
- What does this say about the genre of fairy tales?
- Is if flexible?
- Do fairy tale adaptations in different media have the same effect? The same function?
Historical Context for the Fairy Tale:
Timeline of Modern European History
Map of European People Groups (ca. 900)
Map of Europe (ca. 1690 - Amsterdam Atlas)
FRENCH REVOLUTION 1790s
Storming of the Bastille (1789)
German Revolution of March 1848 (Spring of Nations)
European Map (ca. 1990)\