units

ATS3496

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 23 December 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Arts
OfferedClayton Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario

Notes

Previously coded ENH3360

Synopsis

The unit focuses upon the historical development of fairy and nursery tales for both adults and children. Students will learn theoretical approaches through which to examine the development of fairy tales, nursery rhymes and other supernatural and fantasy narratives, from oral origins to the Romantics to the postmodern. Key issues studied will be cultural production, gender and historicism. There will be an opportunity for students to consider the genre in their own creative writing.

Outcomes

Students successfully completing this unit will have attained

  1. An understanding of the historical background of fairy and nursery tales;
  2. A critical understanding of the implications of oral and literary storytelling traditions;
  3. A critical understanding of the major thematic paradigms of fairy and nursery tales;
  4. An understanding of how the romantic tradition is constructed and defined and of its relationship to more contemporary fairy and nursery tales;
  5. The ability to analyse fairy and nursery tales through cultural, ideological and historical frameworks.

Assessment

Essays/creative exercises (3600 words): 80%
Test (900 words): 20%

Chief examiner(s)

Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario

Workload requirements

22 hours per semester

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Literary studies

Prerequisites

A cornerstone unit in Literary studies or permission of the unit coordinator

Prohibitions

ATS2496