Literary Fairy Tale Tradition

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This course is a survey of the fairy tale as a literary genre which traces the development of the literary tradition from sixteenth-century Italy to the Brothers Grimm and nineteenth-centuries authors including Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde, and studies Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to note connections to the genre of the novel. Also follows the persistence of fairy tales in modern, post-modern, and contemporary fiction, and in popular film. Requirements include a research paper on a fairy tale or author of the student's choosing. Not to be taken by students who have taken ENGL 1030 .