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Apr 25, 2024
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GERST 1109 - FWS: From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness Fall, Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
First-Year Writing Seminar. No knowledge of German is expected.
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How did bawdy tales of peasants using magic to climb the social ladder get transformed into moral lessons for children? The answer lies in Romanticism and its appropriation of the imagination as a force for social transformation. As Romantics edited older tales for juvenile consumption they wrote new ones for adults. This new fiction created the matrix for modern pop genres like fantasy, science-fiction, murder mysteries, and gothic horror. To understand this paradigm shift in modern culture, we will read, discuss, and write about a variety of texts the Romantics collected, composed, or inspired, including poetry and film, in addition to classic fairy tales and academic scholarship on the topic.
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