SP2435 Women Writers and Classic Fairy Tales: The Case of Cinderella

SP2435 Women Writers and Classic Fairy Tales: The Case of Cinderella

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29995 W 12 Mile Rd Farmington Hills, MI 48334 United States

3rd Floor

5/14/2024 (one day)

1:00 PM-2:30 PM EDT on Tue

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$20.00

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This class will explore the impact of women writers on the classic fairy tale by following the history of different versions of "Cinderella" that emerged in the 1690s. This exploration will show that women writers of tales had their own legacies, that fairy tales do not always emerge from oral culture, and that literary tales can in fact feed into oral cultures. Participants will follow different Cinderella tales that emerged in Italy, were "canonized" in France, and then made their way into Germany and Czech Republic, as well as the United States.

Duggan, Anne

Anne E. Duggan is a Professor of French and fairy-tale studies at Wayne State University. She is author of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France (2005; rev. 2021), Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy (2013), and, most recently, The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales (2023).