GER 304 - Once Upon a Time: German Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Fantasy

Course Units: 1.0

(Not Offered this Academic Year) Exploration of the genre and tradition of the German Fairy Tale, its reception within various cultural frameworks, and its influence on later literature of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with special focus on identifying aesthetic, sociological, psychological, and psychoanalytical implications and gender issues. The Grimm Brothers’ Kinder- und Hausmarchen (and their revisions in popular and literary culture) will provide a basis for discussing the fairy tale’s role in culture and its continued vitality within the different cultural frameworks of classical, romantic, and modern folklore and fantasy storytelling. Prereq/Corequisite(s): GER 201 or permission of the instrucutor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM