CRWH and CPWH In House Module Catalogue - Feb 2019-1 (1)

CW2220 Fairy Tale Fictions
ASSESSMENT: 1 essay + 1 creative piece
POSSIBLE TUTOR(S): Nick Joseph
This module will explore the ways in which authors have re-imagined, re-appropriated and re-presented
fairy-tales over time, culminating in you writing your own ‘fairy-tale’ creative piece. In the first part of the
module, works by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm will be explored, alongside more contemporary reimaginings
by authors such as AS Byatt, Angela Carter and Kazuo Ishiguro, with particular focus on the
interesting and noteworthy ways that these writers have altered style, theme and stance in their modern
‘fairy-tale’ stories.
After, the module will focus on the writing that you would like to submit for assessment at the end of the
semester. Assessment will be via an essay (circa halfway through the semester) and a 2,500-word creative
piece – an invitation to you, having studied these wide-ranging literary approaches to the genre, to write
your own 21st century ‘fairy-tale’.
This module includes study of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, and therefore sections of material which
are frank and graphic in their exploration of sexual politics.