http://ocw.nd.edu University of Notre Dame English Department - OCW daily 1 2008-01-25T20:52:51Z http://ocw.nd.edu/english/madonna-des-kanonikus-georg-van-der-paele-1 "Madonna des Kanonikus Georg van der Paele", by Jan Van Eyck, 1439 cschulz 2009-07-02T07:49:09Z Image image/jpeg http://ocw.nd.edu/english/madonna-des-kanonikus-georg-van-der-paele "Madonna des Kanonikus Georg van der Paele", Jan Van Eyck, 1439. The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. cschulz 2009-07-02T07:40:10Z Image image/jpeg http://ocw.nd.edu/english/reinventing-the-fairytale This course is structured around four main fairy tales: "Cinderella," the frame narrative for The Arabian Nights, "Beauty and the Beast," and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," and we be looking at a number of different reinventions of those tales in the form of short stories, novels, poems, picturebooks, songs, and films. Because the basic content will be familiar to most students, the focus will be on the stylistic, rhetorical, and ideological changes that are grafted into different redactions. Each variation that we study will be contextualized in its historical moment, and through class discussion, we will map the major developments of each tale, and because fairy tales often teach lessons, we will always be asking ourselves “What is the moral of this story?” For example, in 18c. France, “Beauty and the Beast” was penned to persuade young women to accept physically or intellectually undesirable but financially and socially advantageous marriages. What does that mean in context of Disney’s musical celebration of true love: “bittersweet and strange/finding you can change/learning you were wrong”? Each set of fairy tales will also be paired with theory blocs addressing different critical frameworks: “Cinderella” with gender theory, The Arabian Nights with post-colonial and race theory, “Beauty and the Beast” with queer theory, and “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” with theories relating to the development of national identity. Students will be presented with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) arguments, and class discussion will be focused on exploring these intersections. Note: The idea that fairy tales are for children or are somehow "innocent" is a fairly recent development. Fairy tales often articluate the extreme experiences of human emotion, and several of the stories that we will be looking at deal frankly and explicitly with sex, murder, child abuse, rape, and other "adult" topics. Jacquilyn Weeks The Arabian Nights fairy tales Cinderella Beauty and the Beast The Pied Piper of Hamlin 2009-09-14T17:58:58Z Course text/html http://ocw.nd.edu/english/literature-and-democracy-in-nineteenth-century Home page for English graduate seminar 90606, "Forms of Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature." Sandra Gustafson Literature Democracy United States Nineteenth-Century Political Philosophy American Studies Media Studies dbking 2009-07-02T07:43:14Z Course text/html