| Kommentar |
Fairy tales and myths are more than just ‘old stories’ – having been told and retold through centuries and sometimes millennia, they have shaped most of the archetypes of people and situations which we use, knowingly or unknowingly, to make sense of our world. They have taught generation after generation about the human condition, often in strongly gendered terms (think heroes and princes, stepmothers and witches), but usually with a distinct silencing of female voices. Writers since the second half of the 20th century have started a large-scale project of re-inserting the unheard voices- the women, the (often female) monsters – into the original myths. We will read (watch? play??) some of these works and consider the revisions that they suggest. |
| Literatur |
There are so many more examples than we could cover in one seminar, so we will have to make selections. I will suggest a core curriculum of a few classic texts that we will take as our starting point (these will be provided through Moodle): - Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
- Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber
- Robert Coover: The Gingerbread House
- John Barth: Menelaiad
- Poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead and Anne Sexton
In addition, we will cover one novel, which you need to get for yourself: Madeleine Miller: Circe. You can also prepare by playing some of these video games: The Path; Hades; God of War; Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey |
