ENG 106 - Feminist Fairy Tale Adaptations (W) (1)

Fairy tales have ignited the imagination of children and sophisticated salon readers, storytellers and political activists, authors and film-makers. Contemporary authors have used their familiar tropes and narratives to open up space for the mysterious and the emancipatory in stories of ordinary drudgery, neglect, abuse, injustice, violence. Case in point: the role of fairy-tales in the feminist fiction of American poet Anne Sexton, Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, English writer Angela Carter, which will be the focus of our discussions and writing in this class. We will dedicate our work to developing a basic vocabulary and guided practice analyzing both literary adaptations of fairy-tales and scholarship about these adaptations. We will tone our academic writing muscles by writing in a variety of informal and formal formats, develop writing strategies, and reflect on writing as a multi-stage and recursive process. Not open to students who have previously completed a First-Year Writing Course.
(First Year Writing Seminar (FYW)) (Humanities)