MIT OpenCourseWare
Popular Culture and Narrative: Use and Abuse of the Fairy Tale
- Instructor
- Dr. William Donaldson
- Term
- Fall 2015
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 2 readings · 20 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.430 Popular Culture and Narrative: Use and Abuse of the Fairy Tale, Fall 2015, Dr. William Donaldson — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
18 files
- MIT21L_430F15_EllisGrimms Download
- MIT21L_430F15_Mosse Download
- MIT21L_430F15_TatarClassicFairyTales Download
- 21L.430F15 'Ossian', James Macpherson, and the antiquity of oral tradition Download
- 21L.430F15 Albert B. Lord, The Singer of Tales Download
- 21L.430F15 Angela Carter—a Brief Guide to Non-Featured Stories Download
- 21L.430F15 Calvin S. Hall and Vernon J. Nordby, A Primer of Jungian Psychology Download
- 21L.430F15 Carl G. Jung, Man and His Symbols Download
- 21L.430F15 Christa Kamenetsky, Children’s Literature in Hitler’s Germany - The Cultural Policy of National Socialism Download
- 21L.430F15 Jack Zipes, Irresistable Fairy Tale Download
- 21L.430F15 Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen—The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films Download
- 21L.430F15 Jack Zipes, When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition Download
- 21L.430F15 Liz Lochhead Reading Guide Download
- 21L.430F15 Lizanne Henderson and Edward J. Cowan, Scottish Fairy Belief Download
- 21L.430F15 Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales Download
- 21L.430F15 Robert Graves, The White Goddess--a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth Download
- 21L.430F15 Summary of Christa Kamenetsky’s Argument Download
- 21L.430F15W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries Download
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MIT OpenCourseWare, Dr. William Donaldson, 21L.430 Popular Culture and Narrative: Use and Abuse of the Fairy Tale, Fall 2015.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2015 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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