| Course Title: Topics in Creative Writing: 'Retelling Myth and Fairy Tale' |
| Start Date: 01/23/2024 End Date: 05/07/2024 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2024 |
| Description: This course explores contemporary fiction that retells old myths and fairy tales to create new writing. We will read short stories and novels from a diversity of cultures that adapt received texts to generate new works, which often implicitly question the original tales' messages, providing feminist, racial, and/or queer correctives. Students will read these retellings as creative writers, gleaning techniques and approaches to write their own contemporary retellings. Everyone will give and receive critique in small groups and workshops throughout the course and revise writing for the final project. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Anna Maria Hong | 413-538-2862 | ahong@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024 | Discussion | Monday and Wednesday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | DWGT - Dwight Hall | 202 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: ENGL-201. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 16 | Enrollment: 15 | Available: 1 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: The Bloody Chamber Author: Carter, Angela Copyright: 2015 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780143107613 Publisher: Penguin Classics |
Required | 17.00 |
| Title: The Goddess Chronicle Author: Kirino, Natsuo Copyright: 2012 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0802121098 Publisher: Canongate |
Required | 24.00 |
| Title: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tale Author: Bernheimer, Kate Copyright: 2002 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0385486812 Publisher: Anchor Books |
Optional | 14.00 |
| Title: XO Orpheus: Fifty New Myths Author: Bernheimer, Kate Copyright: 2013 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780143122425 Publisher: Penguin |
Optional | 18.00 |
| Title: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me Author: Bernheimer, Kate Copyright: 2010 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780143117841 Publisher: Penguin |
Required | 17.00 |
| Title: The Archive of Alternate Endings Author: Drager, Lindsey Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781945814822 Publisher: Dzanc Books |
Required | 16.95 |
| Title: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Selected Tales Author: Crick, Joyce Copyright: 2005 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780192804792 Publisher: Oxford University Press |
Required | 13.95 |
| Title: Mythology Author: Hamilton, Edith Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0446574759 Publisher: Little, Brown and Co. |
Optional | 10.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: You can buy inexpensive used copies of these titles at Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and Powell's City of Books. Do purchase the five required books; the other titles are optional but useful, and again, available cheaply. Buying the books supports the authors and earns you good feelings in Book Land. |