DATE	TEXT	TOPIC	SET READINGS
6 August	Introduction Theoretical background	Fairy-tale structure, narrative convention, folktale, metafiction.
13 August	Byatt The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye "The Glass Coffin" "Eldest Princess" "Gode’s Tale"	Narrative self-awareness. Rewriting vs. creating. Folkloric roots.	Waugh, Metafiction, Chapter 1 ("What is metafiction and why are they saying such awful things about it?") Grimms’ "Glass Coffin"
20 August	Byatt The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye "The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye"	Structure/postmodernism M FIRST EXERCISE DUE: Bacchilega Ch. 1.	Todd, Wonder Tales
27 August	Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber "The Bloody Chamber" "Courtship of Mr. Lyon" "The Tiger’s Bride"	Perrault / rewriting / metafiction Rewriting as politics	Gilbert and Gubar, Chapter 1: "The Queen's Looking Glass" Andrew Dworkin, "The Fairy Tales"
3 September	Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber "Werewolf", "Company of Wolves" Fairy tale and film: The Company of Wolves	Feminism as revision M SECOND EXERCISE DUE: Fairy tale and feminism	Patricia Duncker
8-16 September	10-day vac
17 September	Theoretical background Tanith Lee, "Red as blood", "The Princess and her Future"	Popular culture / Science fiction / fantasy / horror FIRST ESSAY: both topics (Byatt or Carter) due
24 September	Public holiday, no tutorial
1 October	Tanith Lee, "Wolfland", "Beauty" Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad.	popular fairytale: popular feminism? Popular fairy tale; the fantasy novel. M THIRD EXERCISE DUE: pop culture & postmodernism	Zipes, "Lion Kings and the culture industry"
8 October	Terry Pratchett Witches Abroad	popular fairytale, the fantasy novel, narrative structure and expectation, parody M SECOND ESSAY: Lee topic due	Linda Hutcheon
15 October	Disney, Beauty and the Beast	Form/structure; adaptation, genre Folklore and popular culture M SECOND ESSAY: Pratchett topic due
22 October	Shrek	Satire, parody, cultural comment, self-consciousness	Zipes, "Breaking the Disney Spell"
30 October		MSECOND ESSAY: Film topic due