Teaching Fairy Tales

By: Gioia Timpanelli • Cristina Mazzoni • Allison Stedman • Ann Schmiesing • Jennifer Schacker • Prof. Nancy L. Canepa • Prof. Jack Zipes • Dean Donald Haase • Lewis C. Seifert • Prof. Anne E. Duggan • Professor Maria Nikolajeva • Prof. Cristina Bacchilega • Associate Professor Christine A. Jones • Julie L. Koehler • Kay Stone • Prof. Maria Tatar • Prof. Victoria Somoff • Prof. Gina Miele • Prof. Linda Kraus Worley • Prof. Faith E. Beasley • Prof. Charlotte Trinquet du Lys • Prof. Benjamin Balak • Prof. Suzanne Magnanini • Maria Kaliambou • Prof. Elio Brancaforte • Prof. William Moebius • Prof. Graham Anderson

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Synopsis

Teaching Fairy Tales edited by Nancy L. Canepa brings together scholars who have contributed to the field of fairy-tale studies since its origins. This collection offers information on materials, critical approaches and ideas, and pedagogical resources for the teaching of fairy tales in one comprehensive source that will further help bring fairy-tale studies into the academic mainstream.

The volume begins by posing some of the big questions that stand at the forefront of fairy-tale studies: How should we define the fairy tale? What is the "classic" fairy tale? Does it make sense to talk about a fairy-tale canon? The first chapter includes close readings of tales and their variants, in order to show how fairy tales aren’t simple, moralizing, and/or static narratives. The second chapter focuses on essential moments and documents in fairy-tale history, investigating how we gain unique perspectives on cultural history through reading fairy tales. Contributors to chapter 3 argue that encouraging students to approach fairy tales critically, either through well-established lenses or newer ways of thinking, enables them to engage actively with material that can otherwise seem over-familiar. Chapter 4 makes a case for using fairy tales to help students learn a foreign language. Teaching Fairy Tales also includes authors’ experiences of successful hands-on classroom activities with fairy tales, syllabi samples from a range of courses, and testimonies from storytellers that inspire students to reflect on the construction and transmission of narrative by becoming tale-tellers themselves.

Teaching Fairy Tales crosses disciplinary, historical, and national boundaries to consider the fairy-tale corpus integrally and from a variety of perspectives. Scholars from many different academic areas will use this volume to explore and implement new aspects of the field of fairy-tale studies in their teaching and research.

Book Details

Book Quality:
ISBN-13:: 9780814339367
Publisher:: Wayne State University Press
Date of Addition:: 2019-03-25T07:30:27Z
Language:: English
Categories:: Art and Architecture, Education, Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction,
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.