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Week 2	Italian Fairy Tales	Giuseppe Francesco Straparola - Tales from The Pleasant Nights or Le Piacevole notti (1580). English translation. - read two tales		Read online on Sur La lune. Recommended texts: Costantino Fortunato
		Gianbattista Basile - Tales from Il Pentamerone or Lo cunto de li cunti (1580). English translation. - read two tales		ebook in EUB format. Screen-friendly. Readable with Mobipocket, smartphone application or e-Reader. Recommended texts: Gagliuso, Peruonto
		Gianbattista Basile - It Pentamerone - Illustrated version available online on SurLaLune		Recommended texts: Gagliuso, Peruonto
Week 3	French Literary Fairy Tales - Les salonières	Beauty and the Beast by Madame Marie LePrince de Beaumont. With a presentation by Maria Tatar
		Madame d’Aulnoy - The Yellow Dwarf.		Illustrated version on Archive.org. For another online version (no illustrations, but better text visibility) check the online version at Adelaide.edu.
		Madame d’Aulnoy and Les Salonieres.		Film (1 min 25 sec)
		Comtesse de Ségur - Old French Fairy Tales - beautifully illustrated.		ePUB format. Viewable (and scaleable) on e-readers, smarthones, tablets or computer displays.
		Comtesse de Ségur - Nouvelles Contes de Fées. In French		ePub book
Week 4	Violence and eroticism in the classical fairy tales	Maria Tatar's theme-grouped Fairy Tales Marie-Louise von Franz - psychoanalytical interpretations of fairy tales (fragments)	*	Several files in PDF format. Read at least 2 of these.
		.	Grimm Brothes page at Universtiy of Pittsburg Web edition of tales from the Grimm Brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen that includes both German and English versions	click to visit sites
Week 5	The First Golden Age of the English Fairy Tale. Thackeray & Dickens: Humorous apoproaches	William Makepeace Thackeray - The Rose and the Ring. Original 1854 edition illustrated by Thackeray himself. A bibliophile's edition.		PDF image file 10 MB. Searchable scan of the original 1854 edition.
		William Makepeace Thackeray - The Rose and the Ring.		PDF for print (0.9 MB). 76 pag.
		Charles Dickens - The Magic Fishbone		Great facsimile of an old edition illustrated by F. D. Bedford. PDF from Archive.org. 46 pages. 2MB file.
Week 6	Spiritual Fairy Tales: John Ruskin and George MacDonald	John Ruskin- The King of the Golden River Illustrated. Dodo Press.		PDF, 45 pages.
		John Ruskin - The King of the Golden River. With original illustrations.		ePUB with illustrations. Reformatted for e-readers. 0.9 MB.
		George MacDonald - The Light Princess Illustrated.		PDF, 42 pages.
		George MacDonald - The Light Princess. Audio Book		Audio MP3 file, 1h 32 min. Large file 18MB - wait!
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Week 7	Aestheticist Fairy Tales	Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1910 Brentano edition) Illustrated.		Beatutifully illustrated edition, by Art Nouveau illustrator Charles Robinson. 8MB PDF file. 134 pages
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		Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market ilustrated by the author (Oxford edition) Illustrated.		17-page poem. 28 page-introduction. PDF file (3MB)
		Robert Browning - The Pied Piper of Hamelin - classical 1888 edition beautifully illustrated by Kate Greenaway		56 pages (mostly pictures, very little text...) 2 MB PDF file.
		Robert Browning - The Pied Piper of Hamelin - 1937 edition, illustrated in Maedieval style by Hope Dunlap		47 pages (mostly pictures, little text. 4MB PDF file.
Week 8	American(ized) Fairy Tales	Frank Baum - American Fairy Tales (Feedbooks) Illustrated.		87 pag. PDF file (3MB)
		Frank Baum - - American Fairy Tales - Duke Classics, EPUB		EPUB format for ereaders file .
		Frank Baum - - American Fairy Tales - LIT format		LIT file readable with Microsoft Reader (download).
		Frank Baum - - American Fairy Tales - LibriVox online audio streaming		MP3 streamed online or downloadable as individual MP3 files..
Week 9	The Fairy Tales into the 20th Century : Edwardian Invention	Kenneth Grahame - The Reluctant Dragon Illustrated.		PDF file from FeedBooks
		Edith Nesbit - - The Book of Dragons		PDF from FeedBooks.
		Edith Nesbit - - The Book of Dragons illustrated - EPUB		EPUB edition, 3MB
Week 10	Fairy Tales in the Modern Era	Carl Sandburg - The Rootabaga Stories Illustrated.		PDF file
		Anne Sexton - about Transformations		1971 volume of feminist poetry
Week 11	The Disney-ization of the Fairy Tale	Disney's retelling of classic fairy tales	The aim of the seminar: exerpt brief sequences from Disney's animation films (max 2 minute each) that best exemplify his mannerisms: presentation of the heroes the villains side-kicks (secondary characters that bring comic relief) magic of transformations songs (& dance)	Download Avidemux - free software to cut fragments from films.
		A chronology of Disney's "Princess" movies		link to a wiki
		Ariel Dorfmann - handout from How to Read Donald Duck		a polemical (and debatable) ideological reading of Disney's films
Week 12	Postmodern Metafictional Tales	Angela Carter - The Courtship of Mr Lyon (about)	>*
		Angela Carter - The Werewolf (about)
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Week 13	Postcolonial Metafictional Tales	Salman Rushdie - Haroun and the Sea of Stories (about)	*
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Week 14	Contemporary Popular Metafictional Tales	Lia Francesca Block	*
		Peter Beagle - Up and Down the Beanstalk
		Elizabeth Lynn - Princess in the Tower (about)
EXAM	1. Home Project	Option A	A 3-page analysis of on of the postmodern fairy tales given here. The texts can be found HERE, together a suggested structure, and some examples of analysis.. NOTE: Those selecting this option will have fewer questions in the Written Exam (I will omit most of the theoretical questions relatie to postmodern fairy tales)
		Option B	A proposal for an entry in a projected Antology for extracurricular reading for children. HERE you can see some more precisions and some examples of such Anthlogy texts.
	2. Written exam	Set of 20-25 Questions	- Questions to be answered briefly in the limited room on the exam sheet. The questions will refer to: the theory of the literary fairy tale, the history of continental and English fairy tales (not so much in terms of dates, but of significant features), the personalities of FT writers.