Tu. Jan. 27

Introduction: Syllabus, Course Requirements & Objectives; Introductory Lecture: The Folk Tale

[Read for historical background: J. Zipes, “Spells of Enchantment: Overview of the History of

Folk Tales” and R. Bottigheimer, “Grimms Tales & the 3000-Year Tradition”]

Th. Jan 29

The Brothers Grimm & the Literary Folk Tale

Read for today: J. Zipes, “Once There Were Two Brothers Named Grimm”

Tu.  Feb. 3

Disciplining Children in 18th & 19th-Century Germany

Read for today: Alice Miller, excerpts 1 & 2 from “Poisonous Pedagogy” in For Your Own Good

Th.  Feb. 5

“Hansel & Gretel” & Family Values

Read for today: Brothers Grimm, “Hansel & Gretel” (early & revised versions); J. Zipes, “The

Rationalization of Abandonment and Abuse in Fairy Tales: The Case of Hansel & Gretel”

Tu.  Feb. 10

Snow White: Some Day My Prince Will Come?

Read for today: Grimms, “Snow White”; Gilbert & Gubar, “The Queen’s Looking Glass”

Th.  Feb. 12

Snow White Behind the Iron Curtain: East German Snow White (DEFA)

View for today DEFA Snow White (u-drive/germ270)

Tu.  Feb. 17

Disney’s Snow White

View for today Disney’s Snow White. Read: Zipes, “Breaking the Disney Spell.” (optional:

Neil Gaiman’s “Snow, Glass, Apples”; Willingham, Medina, etc. Fables 1: Legends in Exile)

Th.  Feb. 19

Disney’s Snow White (cont’d). U.S. Fairy Tales as Romance

Read for Today: Marcia K. Lieberman, “Some Day My Prince Will Come”

Mon. Feb. 23

Interview assignment due in box outside Herter 525 by 5 pm.

EXTENDED:

DUE MARCH 2 BY 5 pm in box outside Herter 525.

Tu. Feb. 24

Sleeping Beauty/Brier Rose.

Read for today: C. Perrault, “Sleeping Beauty”; Brothers Grimm, “Sleeping Beauty” (first &

revised versions) + sequel “The Stepmother” (optional: Anne Sexton poem)

Th. Feb. 26

Sleeping Beauty & the Textile Workers in the GDR; the DEFA Sleeping Beauty

Excerpts from DEFA Sleeping Beauty (u-drive/germ270)

Tu. Mar. 3

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty

View for today: Disney’s Sleeping Beauty; read Midori Snyder, “Sleeping Beauty”

Th. Mar. 5

Jane Yolen’s Briar Rose

Read for today: Jane Yolen, Briar Rose

Tu. Mar. 10

Cartoons/Disney Goes to War [Cartoons as Propaganda]

Read for today: Neil Gabler, excerpt from Walt Disney; view Education for Death, Cartoons

Go to War (u-drive/germ270)

Th. Mar. 12

Class Canceled. No Assignment

Read for today: Gabler TBA, View TBA

SPRING BREAK

Tu. Mar. 24

Little Red Riding Hood & Female Sexuality: The Grandmother’s Tale

Read for today: Orenstein, “LRRH: The Grandmother’s Tale” C. Perrault,

“Little Red Riding Hood”; anon. “The Wolf-King or Little Red Riding Hood, (1801)

Th. Mar. 26

Little Red Riding Hood (cont’d):

Read for today: Brothers Grimm, “Little Red Cap” (1812); Zipes, “Reviewing &

Re-Framing Little Red Riding Hood”

Tu. Mar 31

Little Red Riding Hood: Modern Versions

Read for today:  A. Carter, “The Company of Wolves”; Anne Sexton, “LRRH”

Th. Apr. 2

In-Class Examination. A-K = SOM 137; L-Z = Herter 227

Tu. Apr. 7

Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Sea Maid”

Read for today: H. C. Andersen’s “The Little Sea Maid” and J. Zipes, “H.C.

Andersen and the Discourse of the Dominated”

Th. Apr. 9

Disney’s The Little Mermaid

Read for today: Giroux, “Walt Disney’s Utopia” and “Kids’ Culture”

Tu. Apr. 14

Disney’s Little Mermaid (cont’d)

Make-up Test

Read for today: Sells, “’Where Do the Mermaids Stand?’”

6-7:15 pm. Herter 201

Th. Apr. 16

Beauty & the Beast

Read: Mme de Beaumont, “Beauty & the Beast” and S. Jeffords, “The Curse of Masculinity”

Tu. Apr. 21

Monday Schedule. No Class.

Th. Apr. 23

Cinderella, Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Gender & Disney

Read for today: Rowe, “Feminism”; C. Perrault, “Cinderella”; Brothers Grimm, “Cinderella”

Tu. Apr. 28

Disney’s Cinderella

View Disney’s Cinderella; read for today: Sexton, “Cinderella”

Th. Apr. 30

Race and Fairy Tales

Read for today: Cartwright & Goldfarb, “Disney in Latin America” and Miller & Rode,

“The Disney You See…”

Tu. May 5

Grimms Enter the New Age: Robert Bly’s Iron John & the U.S. Men’s Movement

Read for today: Brothers Grimm, “Iron Hans”; Zipes, “Spreading Myths About Iron John”

Th. May 7

The Disney Media Empire: Princess Culture

Read for today: Giroux, “Disney & Politics of Public Culture”

Tu. May 12

Last Class. Evaluations. “The Squirrel” + Wrap Up & Review + Bambi meets Godzilla

May 19

Final exam. 10.30 am in Bartlett 65.