Instructor: I. Denischenko
This course aims to reexamine familiar fairy tales in a new light, and to familiarize students with the Russian/Eastern European fairy tale literary tradition. In the process of comparing fairy tale variations and different narrative traditions, students will be introduced to the major schools of fairy tale criticism (structuralist, psychoanalytical, anthropological, Marxist, feminist). By examining different stylistic elements of the fairy tale, the course aims to foster sensitivity to fairy-tale “modes of speaking” in postmodern literature.
