EURO2224 Other Places, Other Times—Focus [UG]
FANTASY, FAIRY TALE AND CHILDHOOD IN EUROPEAN CULTURE
| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1 |
| Old unit code |
020.224 |
| Outcomes |
Students (1) understand and apply the current scholarly definitions of terms and concepts drawn from historical, cultural and literary studies including 'myth', 'folk tale', 'fairy tale', 'fantasy' and 'the fantastic', 'gothic', 'the uncanny', 'childhood' and 'children’s literature'; (2) become familiar with current theories on the individual, social and historical significance of myths, fairy tales and children’s literature; (3) understand the significance of imaginative literatures in relation to the use of the creative and critical imagination in European intellectual traditions; (4) analyse key literary, cultural and film texts representing aspects of the fantastic imagination in the European cultural tradition in sociohistorical context; and (5) understand and apply the principles of analytical thinking, clear writing and correct documentation in short assignments and essays. |
| Content |
From medieval to postmodern times, European societies have located their hopes and fears in the magical realms of fairy tales and childhood. This unit explores the place of folk and classic fairy tales, Romantic and literary fairy tales, and children’s literature in European civilisation and culture. The individual and sociopolitical significance of imaginative literature is considered in light of psychoanalytic, literary and sociohistorical theories drawn from European intellectual traditions. Texts for study include classic fairy tales, Romantic literary fairy tales, children’s literature, and modern forms of the fairy tale and are drawn from a variety of contexts which exemplify the multiple possible relationships of imaginative literature to individual self-understanding, social consciousness and sociopolitical environment. |
| Assessment |
This comprises an assignment, an essay and tutorial participation.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Caroline Finander |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: 24 points of Level 1 units in any Arts discipline |
Contact hours—lectures: 10 hrs; tutorials: 20 hrs (10 x 2 hrs)
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