Postgraduate Course: Fairy Tales (ENLI11079)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course is intended to introduce students to significant exponents of the literary fairy tale in Britain and Europe from the Renaissance to the contemporary period, enabling them to explore the evolution and development of the genre across time with regard to its changing aesthetic form and the different range of cultural, social, and symbolic meanings which the genre invokes.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 0
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	One 4,000 word essay to be submitted as specified in the programme handbook or by the supervisor
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Recognize and trace the historical development of the fairy tale genre in a British and European context and understand and evaluate different definitions and theoretical approaches to the genre. Compare and contrast traditional and classical tale variants and analyse and interpret the formal literary and aesthetic properties of the genre. Understand and evaluate the role of women writers in the creation and perpetuation of the genre. Explain the role of fairy tales in Romantic literary nation-formation. Explore questions of gender, sexuality and identity both within traditional and classicl variants, and in subsequent revisionings or reinterpretations and understand the changing cultural and symbolic functions of fairy tales over time.