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ELL3008S 2007
Fairy tale is one of the oldest forms of narrative, offering within its structured simplicity the possibility for a variety of encoded and symbolic meanings. The course investigates various 20th- and 21st-century texts which self-consciously use and adapt the fairy-tale convention, invoking concerns such as narrative and metafictional awareness, feminist re-tellings and fairy tale as popular culture. Assessment This course is assessed by means of three short critical exercises (700 words each) and two essays (1800 words each). Each essay counts a third of your final mark; the last third is an average of your marks from the three short exercises. Please note that ALL WORK IS COMPULSORY: I reserve the right to refuse DPs to students who do not have an adequate attendance record or who do not hand in required work This means that you will receive 0 for the seminar, not an average of the work you did submit. Essays You will have a wide choice of topics for the two full-length essays, but must write one essay from each half of the course, i.e. your first essay on Byatt or Carter/Jordan, and your second on Lee, Pratchett, or popular film. Essay topics are available here. Exercises These short pieces of work (700 words) require tightly-focused responses to issues of theory or background. They should be personal responses to the set reading, often linking issues from the reading to primary texts; they are not simply summaries of the readings. While I require formal English and not note-form responses, I do not expect you to write much more than the designated 700 words. Topics are available here.
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