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Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composersand, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one stop resource. Features. Provides encyclopedic coverage of folktales and fairy tales from around the globe. Covers not only the history of the fairy tale, but also topics of contemporary importance such as the fairy tale in manga, television, pop music, and music videos. Sniper Elite V2 Directx 11 Patch on this page. Brings together the study of geography, culture, history, and anthropology. Revises and expands an award winning work to now include a full volume of selected tales and texts. The Classes 2. 5 Famous Writers Teach. Plenty of writers teach. Even famous ones. This is a known fact of the universe. After all, academy jobs are notoriously cushy what you give up in writing time you get back in the form of a steady salary, summers off, and the nebulous reward of eager minds to mold. As for how exactly they might be molded, well, thats up to the writer in question. Last week, I started looking through college catalogs to see what interesting literature courses I might read along with this fall, and in the process I stumbled across more than a few descriptions for classes taught by famous writersand some of them surprised me. Who knew, for instance, that Jonathan Lethem loved animals enough to build a course around them Or that in addition to writing workshops, Jim Shepard likes to teach horror movies at Williams On the other hand, Im not at all surprised to find that Claudia Rankine teaches classes that seek to unpack the nature of whiteness, but Im thrilled to have come across her meticulous reading list for last years course. Below, Ive collected course descriptions for classes taught by 2. Most of these are from the current school year, but a few have been culled from recent semesters. Though plenty of writers teach straight workshops whether poetry, fiction, or non fiction, Ive omitted those here, since we all pretty much know what a workshop consists of. Instead, Ive picked out the more interesting options, whether themed workshops or literature classes, which give a little more insight into the writers interests, academic or otherwise. Its enough to make any reader envious of the youth todayand to that end, if youre lucky enough to be at one of these schools right now, I suggest that you dont miss taking one of these classes with a literary legend. Photo Andrew Allen MooreNew York Magazine. Lorrie Moore Article continues after advertisement. Special Topics in Creative Writing Whats So Funny An Investigation Engl. Vanderbilt University, Spring 2. Course Description A look at literary texts from Shakespeare to Toni Cade Bambara to discover how literary humor is used in writing. What are the mechanics of making it occur What are its various attributes and categories and sub speciesWhat are the underlying theories in practice This is not a lecture course but an intensive reading and discussion courseclass presentations and quizzes required but only a little writing. Photo Mike Vorrasi. Jonathan Lethem Topics in Contemporary Fiction Animals ENGL0. B PO, Pomona College Spring 2. Course Description Readings in stories, novels, and essays in which the subject of the lives of animals invites consideration of topics of empathy, suffering and the body, in contemporary writing and thought generally. Well also take more than a sidelong glance at the function and uses of literary strategies of allegory, parable and fable. Letter grade only. Impossible Novels The Man Without Qualities ENGL0. A PO, Pomona College Spring 2. Course Description In the poet Randall Jarrells definition, a novel is a prose narrative of a certain length with something wrong with it. The Austrian Modernist Robert Musils The Man Without Qualities, an unfinished novel of 1. Musil is often classed with Proust and Joyce in the 2. Century pantheon hes also rarely read. In this seminar well tackle this vast book directly and by using a number of historical and critical sources, as well as Musils diaries, to surround and inform it with useful context. The result will be a reading expedition to an unknown shore. Letter grade only. Photo Bob Chamberlin Los Angeles Times. Viet Thanh Nguyen Writing Narrative ENGL 3. USC, Fall 2. 01. 6Course Description This course takes as its premise that art and politics can co exist. Frequently this involves dealing with the history that has produced ones otherness with the task of translation that often falls on the other with the burden of representing the marginalized community from which one comes with crossing borders of all kinds linguistic, sexual, geographical, generic. All the writers we will read are hard to classify, because they rebel against classi cation itself, which seeks to pin the other down into a manageable category race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, etc. As writers, students will have the chance to experiment with narrative, to disregard generic boundaries, to take on di cult subjects, to be critical in their creative writing, or to be creative in their critical writing. Introduction to Literary and Cultural Criticism and Theory ENGL 5. USC, Fall 2. 01. 5Course Description As the title indicates, this course is an introduction. It requires no advance knowledge of literary and cultural criticism and theory. We will read excerpts from the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism on the major theorists and philosophers who have shaped contemporary criticism in no particular order Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Stuart Hall, Fredric Jameson, and others. In addition, given that half of the seminar will be composed of creative writers and the other half of literary critics although perhaps some may cross the line and do both, we will also look at some figures who do both creative and critical work, such as Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Claudia Rankine, Gloria Anzalda, and Trinh T. Minh ha, in an effort to see how criticism can inform creative work, and vice versa. Figuring out what terms like structuralism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, and others, do in literary and cultural theory will also be on the agenda. Be prepared to lead the seminar in discussion, to participate in the conversation both in seminar and online, and to write a research paper or an essay. Photo Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times. Junot Daz Apocalyptic Storytelling CMS. MIT, Fall 2. 01. 7Course Description Focuses on the critical making of apocalyptic, post apocalyptic and dystopian stories across various narrative media. Considers the long history of Western apocalypticism as well as the uses and abuses of apocalypticism across time. Examines a wide variety of influential texts in order to enhance students creative and theoretical repertoires. Students create their own apocalyptic stories and present on selected texts. Investigates conventions such as plague, zombies, nuclear destruction, robot uprising, alien invasion, environmental collapse, and supernatural calamities. Considers questions of race, gender, sexuality, colonialism, trauma, memory, witness, and genocide. Intended for students with prior creative writing experience. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 1. 5. Critical Worldbuilding CMS. MIT, Fall 2. 01. 7Course Description Studies the design and analysis of invented or constructed worlds for narrative media, such as television, films, comics, and literary texts. Provides the practical, historical and critical tools with which to understand the function and structure of imagined worlds. Examines world building strategies in the various media and genres in order to develop a critical and creative repertoire. Participants create their own invented worlds. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 1. 3. Photo M. Sharkey. Alexander Chee Imaginary Countries ENGL 8. Dartmouth College, Fall 2. Course Description This course introduces the techniques used in speculative fictionliterary novels and stories using either science fiction, magical realism, or myth, or a mix of these, so the author can reinvent a countrys history, the country itselfeven the world. We will read for technique, and discuss the effects these fictions achieve with their structures and the narrative and aesthetic strategies deployed. Students will write and workshop two stories.