Russian Fairy Tales (RUSS 0090)

Russian Fairy Tales: The Video

(12MB, Windows Media Viewer)
(22MB, Quicktime)

Autumn 2004 (05-1) (Birnbaum, Fraser, Jimerson, Konsko, Marquette, Post)

General Course Materials

• Course Description
• Syllabus
• Books on Reserve at Hillman Library
• Instructors' Office Hours
• Overheads (from Lectures)
• Viewing Notes for Film Clips
• Primers

Tests and Grades

General

• Sample Quiz and Examination Questions
• How to Answer an Essay Question
• Explanation of Grading Policy

Examination #1

• Examination #1 Grades
• Examination #1 Statistics

Examination #2

• Examination #2 Grades
• Examination #2 Statistics

Examination #3

• Examination #3 Grades
• Examination #3 Statistics

Extra Credit Materials

• Extra-Credit Consultation Form (Print this, fill it out, and bring it to your consultation)
• How to Write a Paper
• How to Write a Fairy Tale
• What is Plagiarism and How to Avoid It
• Read This if You Use the Web for Research
• Required Cover Sheet for Extra-Credit Tales and Papers
• Extra Credit Tales and Analytical Papers from Previous Semesters
  • Spring 2003 (03-2)

General Contents

• About
• Images
• Definitions
• Gods, Saints, and Spirits
• Feminism
• Fairy Tales and Literature
• Fairy Tales and Music
• Miscellaneous Information
• Additional Bibliography
• Fairy Tale Archives

About

• About These Materials

Images

• Images, Arranged by Topic

Definitions

• Definitions of Basic Terms Pertaining to Fairy Tales
• Glossary of Russian terms in Ivanits's book

Gods, Saints, and Spirits

• Russian Pagan Gods
• Russian Saints and Feasts (includes popular saints)
• Minor Russian Spirits
• Mythic Birds

Feminism and Fairy Tales

• Terms Pertaining to Feminism
• Discussion Questions from Previous Semesters
  • Feminist Criticism of Fairy Tales
  • Rowe and Bottigheimer Readings

Fairy Tales and Literature

• A. S. Pushkin's (1819) Rusalka (The Water Nymph), translation by Genia Gurarie
• A. Ostrovskii's Snow Maiden

Fairy Tales and Music

• Russian Music Based on Fairy Tales and Folklore
• Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov's Sadko (opera, 1894-96)

Miscellaneous Information

• Library of Congress System for Russian Transliteration
• Features of Realism (Bozenna Goscilo)
• Features of Romanticism (Bozenna Goscilo)
• Russian Proverbs mentioned in Linda Ivanits's Russian Folk Belief

Additional Bibliography

• David J. Birnbaum's Additional Bibliography
• Tracy Callison's Sources for the Analysis and Interpretation of Folk and Fairy Tales (Separated into: General, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Literary, Children and Youth, Second Half of Life, Specific Cultures Bibliographies)

Fairy Tale Archives

• Grimm's Fairy Tales: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/
• Perrault's Mother Goose Tales: http://www.angelfire.com/nb/classillus/images/perrault/perra.html
• Basile's Il Pentamerone: http://surlalune.tripod.com/pentamerone/
• Kay E. Vandergrift's hypertextual Special Interest Page
• Kathy Martin and David K. Brown's Cinderella Stories (Internet resources and bibliography of publications of or pertaining to Cinderella)
• University of Southern Mississippi Little Red Riding Hood Project (text and illustrations from sixteen English-language versions, edited by Michael N. Salda)