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Course Lectures and Readings

The reading assignments are posted here along with links to the lectures. 

January

• Monday 6 Introduction 
• Introduction
• Jack Zipes. "Introduction," Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (FTAS).
• Wednesday 8 Fairy Tale Function and Paraphernalia 
• “Little Red Riding Hood," The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (ACFT). Maria Tatar, editor. 
• “The Red Shoes” – Hans Christian Andersen
• Sebastian-Jones Red Riding Hood.pdf  
•  Mayako The Princess, the Witch, and the Fireside.pdf  
• Advertisements (in-class)

TRICKSTER TALES

• Monday 13 Tricksters and the Search for Home
• “Hansel and Gretel," ACFT.
• Once Upon A Time "True North" (S01E09- available on Youtube) 
• Zipes. "Setting Standards for Civilization through Fairy Tales," FTAS.  
• Wednesday 15 Tricksters and Pranksters Abroad
• “Jack and the Beanstalk,” ACFT.
• “Tom Thumb,” ACFT.
• Vladimir Propp's 31 Functions 
•  Bottigheimer Bad Girls and Bold Boys.pdf  

• Monday 20 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY - NO CLASS  
• Wednesday 22 The Fate of the Female Trickster
  
• “Molly Whuppie,” ACFT.
• The Farmer's Clever Daughter.pdf  
• Stahl.pdf  
• Haase. "Introduction," Feminism and Fairy Tales.   

• Monday 27 Tricksters in Court
• “Rumpelstiltskin,” ACFT.
• “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” ACFT.
• “The Brave Little Tailor” – SurLaLune Fairy Tales
•  Zipes. "Who's Afraid of the Brothers Grimm?," FTAS.   
• Wednesday 29
• Tricksters in Fairy Tales

February

BEASTLY BRIDEGROOMS AND ENCHANTED SPOUSES

• Monday 3 Beastly Bridegrooms
• “Beauty and the Beast,” ACFT.
• “Psyche and Cupid”
• Hearne Beauty and the Beast Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale.pdf  
• Wednesday 5
• “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,”  ACFT. 
• “Bluebeard,”  ACFT.
• Enchanted Groom Tales.pdf   

• Monday 10 5 Enchanted Brides
• “The Little Mermaid,”  ACFT.
• Tatterhood.pdf  
• Zipes. "Hans Christian Andersen and the Discourse of the Dominated," FTAS.  
• Wednesday 12
• Enchanted Bride Tales.pdf  
• Talairach-Vielmas Beautiful Maidens Hideous Suitors.pdf  

• Monday 17 Transformations
• “The Frog King, of Iron Heinrich,”  ACFT.
• “The Ugly Duckling,”  ACFT.
• Zipes What Makes a Repulsive Frog So Appealing.pdf  
• Wednesday 19
• Beastly Bridegrooms and Enchanted Spouses

WEATHER AND WONDER

• Monday 24
• “The Ice Maiden”
• Wednesday 26
• Fairies, Deils, and Witches.pdf
• Fairies, Brownies, and Witches.pdf  
• Lofthouse North-Country Fairy Lore.pdf  
• Silver Fairy Brides.pdf   

March

PRINCESS TALES

• Monday 3 Princess Trials 
• “Patient Griselda” – Giovanni Boccaccio 
•  Wednesday 5 
• “Sleeping Beauty,” ACFT.
• "The Sleeping Beauty"  
• Fay Sleeping Beauty Must Die.pdf  

• Monday 10 – SPRING BREAK
• Wednesday 12 – SPRING BREAK

• Monday 17 Angelic Daughters and Monstrous Mothers
• “Snow White,”  ACFT.
• "Pilot" Once Upon A Time (available on YouTube)
  
• Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. "Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother," Madwoman in the Attic.   
• Wednesday 19
• “Rapunzel,”  ACFT.
• Tangled (2010)
• Zipes. "The Fight Over Fairy-Tale Discouse," FTAS.  

• Monday 24 Cinderella
• “Cinderella,”  ACFT.
• “Puss in Boots,”  ACFT.
• Crowley Feminist Frauds on the Fairies and Cinderella.pdf  
• Wednesday 26
• “Donkey Skin,”  ACFT.
• Maria Tatar. "Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales."  

• Monday 31
• Cinderella in America
• A Modern Cinderella 1860.docx
• A New Cinderella 1883.docx  
• Jane Yolen. "American Cinderella." Cinderella Casebook.  

April

• Wednesday 2 The Chosen Woman
• “The Princess and the Pea,”  ACFT.
• “Vasilisa the Fair,”  ACFT. 

• Monday 7
• Conferences  
• Wednesday 9
• Conferences  

• Monday 14
• Class Presentations
• Wednesday 16
• Class Presentations

• Monday 21 – LAST DAY OF CLASSES
• Class Presentations