Day/Time

TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM

Instructor

Pirozhenko

In this course, we will get to know Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and their methods to collect, edit, and publish fairy tales and we will reflect on their legacy. We will read and discuss fairy tales written by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Wilhelm Hauff, Ludwig Tieck, Adelbert von Chamisso as well as by contemporary authors such as Elfriede Jelinek, Yoko Tawada, and Kim De L’Horizon who incorporate fairy tales into their writings. We will engage with scholarship on fairy tales’ oral and written transmissions, structures, meanings, and functions (Maria Tatar, Jack Zipes, Max Lüthi, Wladimir Propp, etc.) and analyze cinematic adaptations within the German speaking realm and beyond. In sum, we anticipate having fun while immersing ourselves in the magic world of fairy tales. 

Readings and Discussions in German (except for some scholarly work written in English).