1 Fairy Tales, Myth, and Fantasy

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales
5. Introduction 3
6. Fantastic Environments
7. Fairy Tales, Myth, and Fantasy 21
8. Teaching Fairy Tales in Folklore Classes 35
9. At the Bottom of a Well 48
10. Sociopolitical and Cultural Approaches to Teaching Canonical Fairy Tales
11. The Fairy-Tale Forest as Memory Site 63
12. Grimms’ Fairy Tales in a Political Context 79
13. Teaching Charles Perrault’s Histoires ou contes du temps pass’ in the Literary and Historical Context of the Sun King’s Reign 99
14. Lessons from Shahrazad 113
15. Decoding Fairy-Tales Semantics
16. The Significance of Translation 133
17. Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales in the Hands of the Brothers Grimm 147
18. Teaching Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales 159
19. Teaching Symbolism in “Little Red Riding Hood” 172
20. Classical Tales through the Gendered Lens
21. Binary Outlaws 191
22. Teaching “Gender in Fairy-Tale Film and Cinematic Folklore” Online 206
23. Intertextuality, Creativity, and Sexuality 227
24. Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index Cited 241
25. About the Authors 243
26. Index 247