Utah State University Press, 2016 eISBN: 978-1-60732-481-2 | Paper: 978-1-60732-480-5 Library of Congress Classification GR45.N49 2016 Dewey Decimal Classification 398.207
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ABOUT THIS BOOK New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales provides invaluable hands-on materials and pedagogical tools from an international group of scholars who share their experiences in teaching folk- and fairy-tale texts and films in a wide range of academic settings.
This interdisciplinary collection introduces scholarly perspectives on how to teach fairy tales in a variety of courses and academic disciplines, including anthropology, creative writing, children’s literature, cultural studies, queer studies, film studies, linguistics, second language acquisition, translation studies, and women and gender studies, and points the way to other intermedial and intertextual approaches. Challenging the fairy-tale canon as represented by the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, and Walt Disney, contributors reveal an astonishingly diverse fairy-tale landscape.
The book offers instructors a plethora of fresh ideas, teaching materials, and outside-the-box teaching strategies for classroom use as well as new and adaptable pedagogical models that invite students to engage with class materials in intellectually stimulating ways. A cutting-edge volume that acknowledges the continued interest in university courses on fairy tales, New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales enables instructors to introduce their students to a new, critical understanding of the fairy tale as well as to a host of new tales, traditions, and adaptations in a range of media.
Contributors: Anne E. Duggan, Cyrille François, Lisa Gabbert, Pauline Greenhill, Donald Haase, Christa C. Jones, Christine A. Jones, Jeana Jorgensen, Armando Maggi, Doris McGonagill, Jennifer Orme, Christina Phillips Mattson, Claudia Schwabe, Anissa Talahite-Moodley, Maria Tatar, Francisco Vaz da Silva, Juliette Wood
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Christa C. Jones is associate professor of French and associate department head in the Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies at Utah State University, where she teaches a variety of French culture, language, and literature classes, as well as Business French. Her research has appeared in CELAAN Review, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, Expressions maghrébines, Francofonia, French Review, Jeunesse, Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is the author of Cave Culture in Maghrebi Literature: Imagining Self and Nation (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012) and the coeditor of Women from the Maghreb, a special issue of Dalhousie French Studies (volume 103, Fall 2014).
Claudia Schwabe is assistant professor of German at Utah State University and teaches courses in German language, literature, and culture, including fairy tales. She has published on varied subjects, such as East German fairy-tale films, magic realism, European literary fairy tales of the Romantic period, German Orientalism, televisual adaptations of classical tales, and fairy-tale pedagogy. Her work has appeared in Channeling Wonder, Marvels & Tales, Journal of Folklore Research, The German Quarterly, Cultural Analysis, Poetica Magazine, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her monograph Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture, which is under contract with Wayne State University Press’s Series in Fairy-Tale Studies.
REVIEWS
“A smart, balanced, and pedagogically useful collection. . . . [It has] a lot to offer experienced and novice teachers of fairy tales in varied institutional and national settings.” —Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawai’i
"[M]ost timely. . . . [this] collection of essays offers practical advice to instructors seeking to use folk and fairy tale narrative to engage and educate their students. In it, successful instructors describe their courses. They detail course goals and strategies. They offer suggested readings and describe course activities. I took a number of ideas from this book for use in the courses I am currently teaching." —H-Net
"The essays held this reader's interest with their lively prose and their attractive blend of familiar texts with frequently novel forms of explication." —Journal of Folklore Research
"I found all the essays in this volume useful and inspiring... they are a treasure trove of ideas. Together, they reveal the rich variety of approaches and methods in contemporary courses based on or incorporating fairy tales and amply demonstrate the value of fairy tales in the university classroom." —Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies
"I found all the essays in this volume useful and inspiring... they are a treasure trove of ideas. Together, they reveal the rich variety of approaches and methods in contemporary courses based on or incorporating fairy tales and amply demonstrate the value of fairy tales in the university classroom." —Folklore
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword - Donald Haase
Introduction: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Teaching Folklore and Fairy Tales in Higher Education - Christa C. Jones and Claudia Schwabe
Part I. Fantastic Environments: Mapping Fairy Tales, Folklore, and the Otherworld
1. Fairy Tales, Myth, and Fantasy - Christina Phillips Mattson and Maria Tatar
2. Teaching Fairy Tales in Folklore Classes - Lisa Gabbert
3. At the Bottom of a Well: Teaching the Otherworld as a Folktale Environment - Juliette Wood
Part II. Sociopolitical and Cultural Approaches to Teaching Canonical Fairy Tales
4. The Fairy-Tale Forest as Memory Site: Romantic Imagination, Cultural Construction, and a Hybrid Approach to Teaching the Grimms’ Fairy Tales and the Environment - Doris McGonagill
5. Grimms’ Fairy Tales in a Political Context: Teaching East German Fairy-Tale Films - Claudia Schwabe
6. Teaching Charles Perrault’s Histoires ou contes du temps passé in the Literary and Historical Context of the Sun King’s Reign - Christa C. Jones
7. Lessons from Shahrazad: Teaching about Cultural Dialogism - Anissa Talahite-Moodley
Part III. Decoding Fairy-Tales Semantics: Analyses of Translation Issues, Linguistics, and Symbolisms
8. The Significance of Translation - Christine A. Jones
9. Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales in the Hands of the Brothers Grimm - Armando Maggi
10. Teaching Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales: A Linguistic Approach - Cyrille François
11. Teaching Symbolism in “Little Red Riding Hood” - Francisco Vaz da Silva
Part IV. Classical Tales through the Gendered Lens: Cinematic Adaptations in the Traditional Classroom and Online
12. Binary Outlaws: Queering the Classical Tale in François Ozon’s Criminal Lovers and Catherine Breillat’s The Sleeping Beauty - Anne E. Duggan
13. Teaching “Gender in Fairy-Tale Film and Cinematic Folklore” Online: Negotiating between Needs and Wants - Pauline Greenhill and Jennifer Orme
14. Intertextuality, Creativity, and Sexuality: Group Exercises in the Fairy-Tale/Gender Studies Classroom - Jeana Jorgensen
Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index Cited
About the Authors
Index
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Utah State University Press, 2016 eISBN: 978-1-60732-481-2 Paper: 978-1-60732-480-5
New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales provides invaluable hands-on materials and pedagogical tools from an international group of scholars who share their experiences in teaching folk- and fairy-tale texts and films in a wide range of academic settings.
This interdisciplinary collection introduces scholarly perspectives on how to teach fairy tales in a variety of courses and academic disciplines, including anthropology, creative writing, children’s literature, cultural studies, queer studies, film studies, linguistics, second language acquisition, translation studies, and women and gender studies, and points the way to other intermedial and intertextual approaches. Challenging the fairy-tale canon as represented by the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, and Walt Disney, contributors reveal an astonishingly diverse fairy-tale landscape.
The book offers instructors a plethora of fresh ideas, teaching materials, and outside-the-box teaching strategies for classroom use as well as new and adaptable pedagogical models that invite students to engage with class materials in intellectually stimulating ways. A cutting-edge volume that acknowledges the continued interest in university courses on fairy tales, New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales enables instructors to introduce their students to a new, critical understanding of the fairy tale as well as to a host of new tales, traditions, and adaptations in a range of media.
Contributors: Anne E. Duggan, Cyrille François, Lisa Gabbert, Pauline Greenhill, Donald Haase, Christa C. Jones, Christine A. Jones, Jeana Jorgensen, Armando Maggi, Doris McGonagill, Jennifer Orme, Christina Phillips Mattson, Claudia Schwabe, Anissa Talahite-Moodley, Maria Tatar, Francisco Vaz da Silva, Juliette Wood
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Christa C. Jones is associate professor of French and associate department head in the Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies at Utah State University, where she teaches a variety of French culture, language, and literature classes, as well as Business French. Her research has appeared in CELAAN Review, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, Expressions maghrébines, Francofonia, French Review, Jeunesse, Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is the author of Cave Culture in Maghrebi Literature: Imagining Self and Nation (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012) and the coeditor of Women from the Maghreb, a special issue of Dalhousie French Studies (volume 103, Fall 2014).
Claudia Schwabe is assistant professor of German at Utah State University and teaches courses in German language, literature, and culture, including fairy tales. She has published on varied subjects, such as East German fairy-tale films, magic realism, European literary fairy tales of the Romantic period, German Orientalism, televisual adaptations of classical tales, and fairy-tale pedagogy. Her work has appeared in Channeling Wonder, Marvels & Tales, Journal of Folklore Research, The German Quarterly, Cultural Analysis, Poetica Magazine, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her monograph Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture, which is under contract with Wayne State University Press’s Series in Fairy-Tale Studies.
REVIEWS
“A smart, balanced, and pedagogically useful collection. . . . [It has] a lot to offer experienced and novice teachers of fairy tales in varied institutional and national settings.” —Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawai’i
"[M]ost timely. . . . [this] collection of essays offers practical advice to instructors seeking to use folk and fairy tale narrative to engage and educate their students. In it, successful instructors describe their courses. They detail course goals and strategies. They offer suggested readings and describe course activities. I took a number of ideas from this book for use in the courses I am currently teaching." —H-Net
"The essays held this reader's interest with their lively prose and their attractive blend of familiar texts with frequently novel forms of explication." —Journal of Folklore Research
"I found all the essays in this volume useful and inspiring... they are a treasure trove of ideas. Together, they reveal the rich variety of approaches and methods in contemporary courses based on or incorporating fairy tales and amply demonstrate the value of fairy tales in the university classroom." —Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies
"I found all the essays in this volume useful and inspiring... they are a treasure trove of ideas. Together, they reveal the rich variety of approaches and methods in contemporary courses based on or incorporating fairy tales and amply demonstrate the value of fairy tales in the university classroom." —Folklore
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword - Donald Haase
Introduction: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Teaching Folklore and Fairy Tales in Higher Education - Christa C. Jones and Claudia Schwabe
Part I. Fantastic Environments: Mapping Fairy Tales, Folklore, and the Otherworld
1. Fairy Tales, Myth, and Fantasy - Christina Phillips Mattson and Maria Tatar
2. Teaching Fairy Tales in Folklore Classes - Lisa Gabbert
3. At the Bottom of a Well: Teaching the Otherworld as a Folktale Environment - Juliette Wood
Part II. Sociopolitical and Cultural Approaches to Teaching Canonical Fairy Tales
4. The Fairy-Tale Forest as Memory Site: Romantic Imagination, Cultural Construction, and a Hybrid Approach to Teaching the Grimms’ Fairy Tales and the Environment - Doris McGonagill
5. Grimms’ Fairy Tales in a Political Context: Teaching East German Fairy-Tale Films - Claudia Schwabe
6. Teaching Charles Perrault’s Histoires ou contes du temps passé in the Literary and Historical Context of the Sun King’s Reign - Christa C. Jones
7. Lessons from Shahrazad: Teaching about Cultural Dialogism - Anissa Talahite-Moodley
Part III. Decoding Fairy-Tales Semantics: Analyses of Translation Issues, Linguistics, and Symbolisms
8. The Significance of Translation - Christine A. Jones
9. Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales in the Hands of the Brothers Grimm - Armando Maggi
10. Teaching Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales: A Linguistic Approach - Cyrille François
11. Teaching Symbolism in “Little Red Riding Hood” - Francisco Vaz da Silva
Part IV. Classical Tales through the Gendered Lens: Cinematic Adaptations in the Traditional Classroom and Online
12. Binary Outlaws: Queering the Classical Tale in François Ozon’s Criminal Lovers and Catherine Breillat’s The Sleeping Beauty - Anne E. Duggan
13. Teaching “Gender in Fairy-Tale Film and Cinematic Folklore” Online: Negotiating between Needs and Wants - Pauline Greenhill and Jennifer Orme
14. Intertextuality, Creativity, and Sexuality: Group Exercises in the Fairy-Tale/Gender Studies Classroom - Jeana Jorgensen
Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index Cited
About the Authors
Index
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