Contents
Foreword - Donald Haase
Introduction: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Teaching Folklore and Fairy Tales in Higher Education - Christa C. Jones and Claudia Schwabe
Part I. Fantastic Environments: Mapping Fairy Tales, Folklore, and the Otherworld
1. Fairy Tales, Myth, and Fantasy - Christina Phillips Mattson and Maria Tatar
2. Teaching Fairy Tales in Folklore Classes - Lisa Gabbert
3. At the Bottom of a Well: Teaching the Otherworld as a Folktale Environment - Juliette Wood
Part II. Sociopolitical and Cultural Approaches to Teaching Canonical Fairy Tales
4. The Fairy-Tale Forest as Memory Site: Romantic Imagination, Cultural Construction, and a Hybrid Approach to Teaching the Grimms’ Fairy Tales and the Environment - Doris McGonagill
5. Grimms’ Fairy Tales in a Political Context: Teaching East German Fairy-Tale Films - Claudia Schwabe
6. Teaching Charles Perrault’s Histoires ou contes du temps passé in the Literary and Historical Context of the Sun King’s Reign - Christa C. Jones
7. Lessons from Shahrazad: Teaching about Cultural Dialogism - Anissa Talahite-Moodley
Part III. Decoding Fairy-Tales Semantics: Analyses of Translation Issues, Linguistics, and Symbolisms
8. The Significance of Translation - Christine A. Jones
9. Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales in the Hands of the Brothers Grimm - Armando Maggi
10. Teaching Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales: A Linguistic Approach - Cyrille François
11. Teaching Symbolism in “Little Red Riding Hood” - Francisco Vaz da Silva
Part IV. Classical Tales through the Gendered Lens: Cinematic Adaptations in the Traditional Classroom and Online
12. Binary Outlaws: Queering the Classical Tale in François Ozon’s Criminal Lovers and Catherine Breillat’s The Sleeping Beauty - Anne E. Duggan
13. Teaching “Gender in Fairy-Tale Film and Cinematic Folklore” Online: Negotiating between Needs and Wants - Pauline Greenhill and Jennifer Orme
14. Intertextuality, Creativity, and Sexuality: Group Exercises in the Fairy-Tale/Gender Studies Classroom - Jeana Jorgensen
Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index Cited
About the Authors
Index