Friday, July 19, 2019

Week 9 – April 2 & 4

Tuesday: Tricksters: The Child as Hero
Read: Introduction: Hansel and Gretel," The Classic Fairy Tales, (229-235)
Brothers Grimm, "Hansel and Gretel" (236-241)
Fulano de tal and his Children” (242-244)
Brothers Grimm, "The Juniper Tree" (245-252)
Joseph Jacobs, "The Rose Tree" (252-254)

Thursday: Tricksters: The Child as Hero
Read: “The singing Bones” (254-255)
Charles Perrault, "Little Thumbling" (255-263)
Alexander Afanasev, “Vasilisa the Fair” (263-269)
“Momotato, or the Peach Boy” (270-272)
Joseph Jacobs, “Jack and the Beanstalk” (272-277)
Bruno Bettelheim, "Hansel and Gretel,” pp. 159-166.
Film: “Hansel & Gretel – An Appalachian Version”
Blog Entry 8: The topic of this blog entry is “The Child as a Hero.” Describe the role of various children as heroes in at least 2 fairy tales. Also explain the meaning of this from a Freudian (here Bettelheim) psychoanalytical point of view.  Blog is due by Sunday, April 7.

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