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- Teaching Fairy Tales
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: Wayne State University Press
- Series: Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
summary
Teaching Fairy Tales edited by Nancy L. Canepa brings together scholars who have contributed to the field of fairy-tale studies since its origins. This collection offers information on materials, critical approaches and ideas, and pedagogical resources for the teaching of fairy tales in one comprehensive source that will further help bring fairy-tale studies into the academic mainstream. The volume begins by posing some of the big questions that stand at the forefront of fairy-tale studies: How should we define the fairy tale? What is the "classic" fairy tale? Does it make sense to talk about a fairy-tale canon? The first chapter includes close readings of tales and their variants, in order to show how fairy tales aren't simple, moralizing, and/or static narratives. The second chapter focuses on essential moments and documents in fairy-tale history, investigating how we gain unique perspectives on cultural history through reading fairy tales. Contributors to chapter 3 argue that encouraging students to approach fairy tales critically, either through well-established lenses or newer ways of thinking, enables them to engage actively with material that can otherwise seem over-familiar. Chapter 4 makes a case for using fairy tales to help students learn a foreign language. Teaching Fairy Tales also includes authors' experiences of successful hands-on classroom activities with fairy tales, syllabi samples from a range of courses, and testimonies from storytellers that inspire students to reflect on the construction and transmission of narrative by becoming tale-tellers themselves. Teaching Fairy Tales crosses disciplinary, historical, and national boundaries to consider the fairy-tale corpus integrally and from a variety of perspectives. Scholars from many different academic areas will use this volume to explore and implement new aspects of the field of fairy-tale studies in their teaching and research.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- PART I. Foundations of Fairy-Tale Studies
- What Is a Fairy Tale?
- pp. 15-23
- The Prehistory of Fairy Tales
- pp. 24-33
- The Fairy-Tale Canon
- pp. 54-66
- PART II. Teaching and Learning with Fairy Tales
- Fairy Tales in the Classroom
- pp. 69-78
- Chapter One. Fairy Tales and Tale Types
- Chapter Two. Fairy Tales in Context
- Chapter Three. Teaching New Scholarly Approaches to Fairy Tales
- Chapter Four. Fairy Tales in the Foreign-Language Classroom
- Chapter Five. Fairy-Tale Activities and Projects
- Chapter Six. Fairy-Tale Courses
- The Fairy Tale
- pp. 355-358
- The Origins of the European Fairy Tale
- pp. 359-364
- Fairy Tales in European Context
- pp. 365-371
- The Literary Fairy Tale
- pp. 372-379
- French and Italian Fairy Tales
- pp. 380-386
- Cultural Intersections of France and Italy
- pp. 387-390
- Conversations Classiques
- pp. 391-394
- Fairy Tales of Germany
- pp. 395-402
- Popular Genres: The Fairy Tale
- pp. 403-407
- Understanding the Fairy Tale
- pp. 419-426
- Chapter Seven. From Teaching Fairy Tales to Creative Tale-Telling
- Nine Weeks of Adventures in Storytelling
- pp. 429-436
- Contributors
- pp. 447-456
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814339367
MARC Record
OCLC
1083464436
Launched on MUSE
2019-03-27
Language
English
Open Access
No
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