The required texts are as follows:
[T] = Tatar, Maria, ed. The Classic Fairy Tales. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. ISBN: 9780393972771.
Lord, Albert B. The Singer of Tales. 2nd ed. Edited by Stephen Mitchell and Gregory Nagy. Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780674002838.
[P] = Propp, Vladimir Yakovlevich. The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp. Edited by Sibelan Forrester. Wayne State University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780814334669. [Preview with Google Books]
[PV] = ———. Morphology of the Folktale. 2nd ed. Edited by Louis A. Wagner. University of Texas Press, 1968. ISBN: 9780292783768. [Preview with Google Books]
[K] = Kirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. Edited by Andrew Lang and Introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Dover Publications, 2008. ISBN: 9780486466118. [Preview with Google Books]
[B] = Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. Vintage, 1975, and later edns.
[V] = von Franz, Marie–Louise. The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Shambhala Revised Sub Edition, 1996. ISBN: 9780877735267. [Preview with Google Books]
[K] = Kamanetsky, Christa. Children's Literature in Hitler's Germany: The Cultural Policy of National Socialism. Ohio University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780821406991.
Macdonald, Dwight. 
"A Theory of Mass Culture." (PDF) Diogenes, no. 3 (1953): 1–17. (Originally published in Diogenes 1953 1: 1)
[C] = Carter, Angela. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Penguin Books, 1990. ISBN: 9780140178210.
Online resource: Multilingual Folk Tale Database
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: Folklore and Print Culture; Links between Oral Tradition and Literary Culture | No readings |
| 2–4 | John M. Ellis: One Fairy Story Too Many; Germany in the Age of the Grimms; Perrault and the Written Fairy Tale Tradition | Ellis, John M. One Fairy Story too Many: The Brothers Grimm and their Tales. University of Chicago Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780226205465. |
| 5 | Classic Fairy Tales | [T] "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Beauty and the Beast." Pp. 3–72. |
| 6 | Classic Fairy Tales (cont.) | [T] "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard" and "Hansel and Gretel." Pp. 74–211. |
| 7 | Vladimir Propp: The Russian Folktale |
[P] "Preface." Pp. xiii–xxvi. [PV] "Introduction." Pp. 1–41. |
| 8 | Vladimir Propp: The Russian Folktale (cont.) |
[P] Chapter 3: Wonder Tales, pp. 147–224. [PV] Chapter 3: The Functions of Dramatis Personae, pp. 25–65. |
| 9 | Robert Kirk: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies |
[K] "Introduction." Pp. 13–43. [K] pp. 43–62. |
| 10 | Robert Kirk and Celtic Fairy–belief Concluded |
[K] "A Succinct Account of My Lord Tarbett's Relations in a Letter to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire, of the Predictions made by Seers." Pp. 63–84. Henderson, L., and E. J. Cowan. Scottish Fairy Belief. Tuckwell Press, Limited, 2001. ISBN: 9781862321908. [Preview with Google Books] Evans–Wentz, Walter. The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries. University of California Libraries, 1911. Quiller–Couch, Arthur. "Thomas the Rhymer." The Oxford Book of Ballads, 1910. Child, Francis James. "Tam Lin: 39A." The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1882–1898. |
| 11 | Bruno Bettelheim: The Uses of Enchantment; Freudian Theory and the Fairy Tale |
McLeod, Saul. "Sigmund Freud." SimplyPsychology 2013. "Sigmund Freud." The Victorian Web. 1998. (With particular reference to sexuality and the role of the unconscious) [B] "Introduction." Pp. 3–19. |
| 12 | Bettelheim and the Freudian Interpretation (cont.) |
[B] "The Three Little Pigs." Pp. 41–45. [B] "The Queen Bee." Pp. 76–78. [B] "Little Red Riding Hood." Pp. 166–83. |
| 13 | Bettelheim Concluded |
[B] "Goldilocks." Pp. 215–24. [B] "Snow White and the Myth of Oedipus." Pp. 199–215. Dundes, Alan. "Bruno Bettelheim's Uses of Enchantment and Abuses of Scholarship." The Journal of American Folklore 104, no. 411 (1991): 74–83. Zipes, Jack. "On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children." Children's Literature Association Quarterly (1978): 113–22. (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 14 | Marie–Louise von Franz, Jungian Theory and the Fairy Tale |
McLeod, Saul. "Carl Jung." SimplyPsychology 2014. Hall, Calvin S., and Vernon J. Nordby. A Primer of Jungian Psychology. Taplinger Publishing Company, 1973. ISBN: 9780800865542. [V] Chapters 1–5: Preface, pp. 1–113. Betts, John. "Jungian Fairy Tale Interpretation." Jungian Psychoanalysis. |
| 15 | Jungian Theory Concluded | [V] Chapter 7, pp. 114–97. |
| 16 | The Literary Fairy Tale: Hans Christian Andersen and After |
[V] pp. 212–61. Dahlerup, Pil, Ulla Thomsen, et al. "Splash!: Six Views of "The Little Mermaid."" Scandinavian Studies 62, no. 4 (1990): 403–29. (University of Illinois Press.) |
| 17 | The Literary Fairy Tale (cont.) |
Dickens, Charles. "The Magic Fishbone." In Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales. Edited by Alison Lurie. Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780192142184. Baum, L. F. "The Queen of Quok." In Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales. Edited by Alison Lurie. Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780192142184. Dick, Philip K. "The King of the Elves." In Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales. Edited by Alison Lurie. Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780192142184. Asbosen, Hans Christian. "Snow White and the Seven Dads." In The Asbo Fairy Tales. Michael O'Mara Books Limited, 2008. ISBN: 9781843172932. |
| 18 | The Literary Fairy Tale Concluded |
[T] "Three Bluebeard Stories: Margaret Atwood, "Bluebeard's Egg"." Pp. 156–78. [C] "The Bloody Chamber." Pp. 7–41. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. "Bluebeard's Daughter." In Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales. Edited by Alison Lurie. Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780192142184. |
| 19 | Abuse of the Fairy Tale?: The Nazis and German Folklore, Christa Kamenetsky |
Kamenetsky, Christa. "Folktale and Ideology in the Third Reich." The Journal of American Folklore 90, no. 356 (1977): 168–78. (American Folklore Society.) [K] "Folktale, Germandom and Race." Pp. 70–81. |
| 20 | Abuse of the Fairy Tale? (cont.): Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Disney, Walt. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Golden / Disney, 2003, ISBN: 9780736421867. |
| 21 | Classic Angela Carter Stories |
[C] "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon." [C] "The Tiger's Bride." |
| 22 | Classic Angela Carter Stories (cont.) |
[C] "The Company of Wolves." [C] "Lady of the House of Love." |
| 23–25 | Liz Lochead: Grimm Sisters |
Lochhead, Liz. "Grimm Sisters." Sequence from Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems 1967–1984. Birlinn Limited, 2003, ISBN: 9780954407513. Lochhead, Liz. "The Choosing." From Memo for Spring, 1972. Blographia Literaria. |
| 26 | Last Class | No new readings assigned |