Academic geekery
I'm currently putting together a syllabus for an Intro to Lit class as part of my Practice in Teaching Literature class. Instead of putting together a simple straightforward "three genres" kind of Intro to literature class, I'm focuing on retellings and adaptation. Its a topic I find really fascinating and I think used properly it can function well as the orgainizing priciple of such a class.
When i started formulating this, one of the first things I thought about was using various versions of Little Red Riding Hood and Blue Beard, especially Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves," and "The Bloody Chamber." I got one of the readers I requested yesterday, a book called Retellings geared at using adaptation as a theme for just such a course. And of course I sart purusing its contents and what do I find, but a whole section on Little Red Riding Hood, including the Perrault and Grimme versions, a piece by Tanith Lee (which I must read) and low and behold "The Company of Wolves."
I'm digging these editors is what I'm saying.
When i started formulating this, one of the first things I thought about was using various versions of Little Red Riding Hood and Blue Beard, especially Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves," and "The Bloody Chamber." I got one of the readers I requested yesterday, a book called Retellings geared at using adaptation as a theme for just such a course. And of course I sart purusing its contents and what do I find, but a whole section on Little Red Riding Hood, including the Perrault and Grimme versions, a piece by Tanith Lee (which I must read) and low and behold "The Company of Wolves."
I'm digging these editors is what I'm saying.