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Fairy Tales (P02716)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P02716

This course is intended to introduce students to significant exponents of the literary fairy tale in Britain and Europe from the Renaissance to the contemporary period, enabling them to explore the evolution and development of the genre across time with regard to its changing aesthetic form and the different range of cultural, social, and symbolic meanings which the genre invokes.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students will be able to:

* recognize and trace the historical development of the fairy tale genre in a British and European context

* understand ane evaluate different definitions and theoretical approaches to the genre

* compare and contrast traditional and classical tale variants

*analyse and interpret the formal literary and aesthetic properties of the genre

* understand and evaluate the role of women writers in the creation and perpetuation of the genre

* explain the role of fairy tales in Romantic literary nation-formation

* explore questions of gender, sexuality and identity both within traditional and classicl variants, and in subsequent revisionings or reinterpretations

* understand the changing cultural and symbolic functions of fairy tales over time