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Artful Journeys: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales with Jack Zipes
Tue 3 Nov 2020 to Tue 8 Dec 2020
Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, takes us on an armchair journey not through castles and turrets, but on a more modern, recognizable path full of mean-spirited bullying; "saucy, angry and capricious" persons from late 19th century France; political tales for social equality; subversive German Dadaism; and Hungarian persona with transcendent powers. The series will end on a return to more familiar children's stories but retold to mesh into our reality.
Oddly Modern Fairy Tales is a series dedicated to publishing unusual literary fairy tales produced mainly during the first half of the twentieth century.
International in scope, the series includes new translations, surprising and unexpected tales by well-known writers and artists, and uncanny stories by gifted yet neglected authors.
Postmodern before their time, the tales in Oddly Modern Fairy Tales transformed the genre and still strike a chord.
November 3–Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men: Political Fairy Tales of Édouard Laboulaye
November 10–Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories in the French Decadent Tradition
November 17–Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales by Kurt Schwitters
November 24–The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Hermynia zur Mühlen
December 1–The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese FairyTales by Béla Balázs
December 8–Old Tales Told Again by Walter de la Mare
The books covered in this Artful Journeys series are from the Oddly Modern Fairy Tales published by Princeton University Press
Dates: Tuesdays, 11 am EDT/8 am PDT, 3 November– 8 December 2020
Location: Online
Cost: $10 per session, $50 for series
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Additional Information:
Location:
Online
Region(s):
International
Price:
$10 per session, $50 for series
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