Professor
Carolyn Sigler
Office Hours: TR 2:00-4:00 and by appointment
111 Faculty Office Building
Office and voicemail: 4-4457
E-mail: csigler@email.sjsu.edu
Web: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/csigler/
Required Texts
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (Penguin)
Coursepacket of materials, available at the Arts
and Sciences Copy Center
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling eds., Snow
White, Blood Red (Avon)
Robin McKinley, Beauty (Harper)
Anne Sexton, Transformations (Houghton
Mifflin)
Maria Tatar, The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton)
Jane Yolen, Briar Rose (Tor)
Jack Zipes, The Trials and Tribulations of
Little Red Riding Hood (Routledge)
Course Purposes
This course examines how traditional folk and
fairy tales such as "Cinderella," Snow White" and "Beauty and the Beast"
have become part of everyday culture, definers of who we are, shapers of
our identities and our character. We will discuss the evolution of popular
folk and fairy tales, the ways they are incorporated into mass culture,
their role in the socialization of the young, and their subversive potential
as a means to raise important questions about social and political issues
such as race, class and gender.
Course Requirements
ïListserv participation, quizzes, and active
participation in class discussions (20%).
ïTwo exams (20% each).
ï Two 5-page essays (20% each).
Listserv:
You will contribute an individual entry once
a week to the class listserv. Because your weekly observations and
responses to your colleagues' thoughts form the substance of our online
discussion, you must be timely with your entries.
READING SYLLABUS
Tuesday Lab Thursday
| Cinderella:
Charles Perrault, "Cinderella";
Jacob and William Grimm, "Ashputtle" |
Jack Zipes,
"Setting Standards for Civilization
through Fairy Tales"; Bruno Bettelheim, "Cinderella"; Vladimir Propp, from Morphologyof the Folktale |
|
| Anne Thackeray
Ritchie, "Cinderella";
Ruth Bottigheimer, "Cinderella" |
trad. Native
American, "Turkey Girl";
trad. Native American, "Rough Face Girl"; trad. Chinese, "Yeh-Shen" |
|
| Louise Bernikow,
"Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies"; Sara Maitland, "The Wicked
Stepmotherís Tale";
Jane Yolen, "Knives" |
Disney,
Cinderella |
Disney, Cinderella
(1950);
Kay Stone, "Things Walt Disney Never Told Us" |
| Disney, Cinderella; contemporary picture books | Little Red Riding Hood: Perrault, "The Little Red Riding Hood"; Grimm, "Little Red Cap" | |
| James Thurber,
"The Little Girl and the Wolf"; Angela Carter,
"The Company of Wolves"; Wendy Wheeler, "Little Red" Zipes, "Framing Little Red Riding Hood"; |
Patricia McKissack,
"Flossie and the Fox"
(African American); M. Abrousset, "A South African Red Ridng-Hood" |
|
| Zipes, "Reviewing and Re-Framing Little Red Ridng Hood"; Anne Sharp, "Not So Little Red Riding Hood"; Sexton, "Red Riding Hood" | Animated
versions of "Red Riding Hood" |
Zohar Shavit,
"The Concept of Childhood and
Childrenís Folktales: 'Little Red Riding Hood'"; Chiang Mi, "Goldflower and the Bear"; Gwen Straus, "The Waiting Wollf" |
| Sleeping Beauty:
Perrault, "The Sleeping Beauty in the
Wood"; Grimm, "Briar Rose"; Bettelheim, "The Sleeping Beauty" |
Ritchie, "The
Sleeping Beauty in the Wood";
Madonna Kolbenschlag, from Kiss SleepingBeauty Good-Bye |
|
| Jane Yolen, Briar Rose | Yolen, Briar Rose | |
| Snow White: Grimm, "Snow White"; Sexton, "Snow White" | Disney,
Snow White |
Disney, Snow White (1937) |
| Tanith Lee, "Red as Blood"; Gwen Straus, "Confessions of a Witch," "The Seventh Dwarf" | Beauty and
the Beast: Marie de Beaumont,
"Beauty and the Beast"; trad. American, "Bearskin"; trad. Mexican "Bruja Milagra"; trad. Japanese, "Tsukino Waguma" |
|
| Clarissa Estès,
fromWomen Who RunWith the Wolves; trad. Native American,"The Girl
Who Loved Wild Horses";
trad. African, "The Snake Chief" |
Cocteau,
Beauty and the Beast |
Jean Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast (1946) |
| Robin McKinley, Beauty | McKinley, Beauty; Betsy Hearne, "The Survival of a Story" | |
| Jane Yolen, "Sleeping Ugly"; Tanith Lee, "Beauty" | Carter, "The Tigerís Bride," "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" | |
| Bluebeard: Grimm, "Bluebeard"; trad. "Molly Whuppie" | Campion,
The Piano |
Jane Campion,
The
Piano (1993); Sylvia
Townsend Warner, "Bluebeard's Daughter" |
| Campion, The Piano; Maria Tatar, "Taming the Beast: Bluebeard and Other Monsters" | Conclusions; Zipes, "Fairy Tale as Myth, Myth as Fairy Tale" |
