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ELL3008S 2007
Bibliography Primary Texts The course is divided roughly into two sections: one on literary fairy tale and one on popular fairy tale. While there are several fairy-tale collections represented, we will not necessarily cover all the tales in the collection. I have specified below the tales we will discuss in class; you are, of course, more than welcome to use others from the collections in your essays. 1. Postmodern literary fairy tale: A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye: Five Fairy Tales
2. Postmodern literary fairy tale: Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber
3. Popular fairy tale: Tanith Lee, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
4. Popular fairy tale: Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad 5. Popular fairy tale: Beauty and the Beast and Shrek (you are also welcome to use Shrek 2, but not the third film. You will need copies of the Byatt, Carter and Pratchett novels/collections, all of which should be available at the Rondebosch bookshop or at Juta in town. The short stories will be on Short Loan, you'll need to make our own copies. The Tanith Lee stories are out of print, and copies of the relevant stories will be available from Short Loan; you will be expected to make your own copies from these. It's up to you to see the films, which should be available from any video store; there are also copies of both Beauty and the Beast and Shrek in the library. NB: there are many more works on fairy tale in the Special Collections department of the library, which is found through and below the African Studies Library, and is open until 1pm Monday to Friday. There are useful resources here which I cannot place on Short Loan. Books in this collection may usually be taken out for one week, but please don’t sit on them for too long! The librarian, Tanya Barben, is usually delighted to help students with research. Essays and readings The course aims at a balance between textual analysis and theoretical background. You will be expected to do some preparation in critical background for each seminar, as well as being familiar with the actual fairytales we will cover. Your essays should not simply repeat the critical background, however, but should engage actively with the texts themselves. (To a large extent, there is not much written directly about many of the texts we will cover - you will have to apply the theory yourselves anyway). You are not obliged to read everything on this list (other than the short exercise readings); select what is appropriate to your topic, and you may also find other relevant material in the library. Unless otherwise noted, references below are to books on Short Loan. Original Fairy Tales Mme Leprince de Beaumont. "Beauty and the Beast." (Photocopy on Short Loan.) Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Fairy tales. Tr. Mrs. E.V. Lucas, Lucy Crane and Marian Edwardes. Jack Zipes, ed. and tr. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. New York: Bantam, 2003. Charles Perrault, Fairy Tales, tr. Geoffrey Brereton. Angela Carter, tr. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. New York : Avon Books, 1979, c1977. "Aladdin", from The Thousand and One Nights, tr. Sir Richard Burton, http://mfx.dasburo.com/an/a_night_29.html The Surlalune Fairy Tales page has e-texts of various tales, although this is not an academic site and should be treated with caution. General Bacchilega, Cristina. "Performing Wonders: Postmodern Revisions of Fairy Tales". Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. (Photocopy on Short Loan) Bettleheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. London: Methuen, 1981. Propp, Vladimir. "Fairy Tale Transformations." Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views. Ed. Matejka and Pomorska, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1971. Rose, Ellen Cronan. "Through the Looking Glass: When Women Tell Fairy Tales." The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development. Ed. Abel, Hirsch, Langland; Hanover NH: U P of New England, 1983. Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Tolkien, J.R.R. "On Fairy Stories." The Tolkien Reader. New York: Ballantine, 1966. Warner, Maria. From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers. London: Vintage, 1994. (Special Collections) Waugh, Patricia. Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction London: Routledge, 1984. --- Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern. London: Routledge, 1989. Zipes, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. New York: Routledge, 1979 ---. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales: The Western fairy tale tradition from medieval to modern. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. (Humanities Reference Library) --- Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion. London: Heinemann, 1983. A. S. Byatt Byatt, A. S. On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays. London: Vintage, 2000. Richard Todd. "Wonder Tales." Writers and their Work: A.S. Byatt. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1997. Eleanor Wachtel. "A.S. Byatt" – interview. Writers and Company. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. A.S. Byatt: Byatt's own web site, with some essays, including one on the various stories in The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye.
Angela Carter Carter, Angela. "Polemical Preface." The Sadeian Woman. London: Virago, 1979. (Photocopy on SL) Dunker, Patricia. "Re-Imagining the Fairy Tales: Angela Carter's Bloody Chambers." Literature and History 1984, Spring, Vol. 10 no. 1. (Photocopy on SL) Dworkin, Andrea. "The Fairy Tales". Women Hating. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1974. Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Chapter 1: "The Queen's Looking Glass." Jordan, Elaine. "The Dangers of Angela Carter." New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on Theories and Texts. Ed. Armstrong. London: Routledge,1992. Wilson, Robert Rawdon. "SLIP PAGE: Angela Carter, In/Out/In the Postmodern Nexus." Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism ed. Adam and Tiffin. Calgary: U of Calgary Press, 1990. Popular Culture Zipes, Jack. "Lion Kings and the Culture Industry". Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Culture Industry. New York: Routledge, 1997. (Book on Short Loan). Terry Pratchett Andrew M. Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn, eds. Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature. Reading: Science Fiction Foundation. This is in Special Collections. I have put a photocopy of one chapter on short loan, see below: Karen Sayer, "The Witches", in Andrew M. Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn, eds. Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature. Reading: Science Fiction Foundation. (ph) The L-Space Web: a collection of fan writing on Pratchett, with links to useful articles, annotated files on the novels, quotes from Pratchett himself, etc. Just for fun: A Discworld wedding cake. You could try to think profound thoughts about the interaction between popular literature and fan culture, but mostly it's just cool. Tanith Lee "Tanith Lee" in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, ed. John Clute and John Grant 1997. London: Orbit. (Humanities reference library). Lefanu, Sarah. "Robots and Romance: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Tanith Lee." Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction. Ed. Susannah Radstone. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1988. Rabkin, Eric S. "Fairy Tales and Science Fiction." Bridges to Science Fiction. Ed. George E. Slusser, George R. Guffey and Mark Rose. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980. 78-90. Films Zipes, Jack. "The Instrumentalisation of Fantasy." Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. New York: Routledge, 1979. Chapter 4, --- "Breaking the Disney Spell. "Fairy Tale as Myth, Myth as Fairy Tale Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994. --- "Towards a theory of fairy-tale film" and "Lion Kings and the Culture Industry". Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Culture Industry. New York: Routledge, 1997. (Book is in Short Loan).
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