1306.13 - Fairy Tale studies (BA)
Course number
1306.13
Title
Fairy Tale studies (BA)
ECTS
10
Prerequisites
Students must have completed the required core courses on the Bachelor Degree Programme in Faroese.
Purpose
To provide students with knowledge about fairy tales as a genre in the Faroes and Europe.
Content
Fairy tales are oral narratives, which were compiled and widely published in print over the last 200 years, the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm pioneered these efforts. In the Faroes Jakob Jakobsen compiled and published fairy tales in the 1890s. Fairy tales are a key category of folk tales and attract the most attention from researchers and the general public. This course offers a critical discussion of literary, structural, psychological and cultural theories and views on fairy tales. Both well-known and less known Faroese fairy tales will be studied.
Faroese fairy tales will be analysed as part of the Nordic and European fairy tale narrative. The course will emphasise comparative interpretation of meaning and will take a retrospective approach to fairy tales in terms of culture and society. The course will also examine the link between narrator and narrative.
Learning and teaching approaches
Lectures and student presentations.
Learning outcomes
Successful students will have developed skills in different methods of analysing fairy tales as well as sufficient insight to carry out independent assessments of this genre of narrative.
Assessment method
Six-hour written examination
Examination
External
Marking scale
13-
Bibliography
Compilation: J. Jakobsen: Færøske Folkesagn og Æventyr. Most recent edition: Tórshavn 2009.
Theory: Bengt Holbek: Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Copenhagen 1987.
Eyðun Andreassen: Ævintýr.
Various articles and book excerpts.
The required reading amounts to 500 pages
Contact
Eyðun Andreasen