Russian Fairy Tales (RUSS 0090)

Russian Fairy Tales: The Video

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

Autumn 2009 (2094) (Birnbaum, Aravich, Buuch, Carpenter, Deocampo, French, Marquette, Snyder)

General Course Materials

• Course Description
• Syllabus
• Instructors’ Office Hours
• Viewing Notes for Film Clips
• Primers

Tests and Grades

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

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

Some materials for Russian Fairy Tales (RUSS 0090) were developed at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2009 by David J. Birnbaum, Dan Criss, Suzanne Daly, Lisa Di Bartolomeo, Meg Eberly, Tom Fraser, Helena Goscilo, Seth Graham, Julia Sagaidak Houkom, Leah Jimerson, John Kachur, Olga Karpushina, Lindsay Konsko, Carrie Marquette, Gerald McCausland, Petre Petrov, Alton Post, Aleksandr Prokhorov, Irina Reyn, Sara Schwartz, Dawn Seckler, Sarah Slevinski, Sabrina Spiher, Ben Sutcliffe, Toni West, Ricky Wilson, and Yingying Xu.

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://www.surlalunefairytales.com/pentamerone/index.html
• 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)