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[d_aulnoy]

Aaaaaaaaaaand, today, I teach Deerskin.  I'm starting us off with a few cultural referents (helloooooooo, Purity Balls!) (also, Marilyn Monroe's "Daddy," of "Let's Make Love" fame: I remember watching that movie as a kid with my father, and thinking, even at age 7, "Okay, I know from daddies, and that?  Is creepy") before carrying us into statistics and Terri Windling's astonishing, heart-breaking, beautifully honest essay, "Surviving Childhood."  These two works, Deerskin and "Surviving Childhood" are two of the most compelling arguments that I'm aware of for the continuing prevalence of the fairy tale, no matter how many issues I have with Princess Industrial Complex.  Here's hoping my students agree ....

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[fireriven.livejournal.com]

A woman after my own heart! I really wanted to use materials like this in my Monday class on Fairy Tales & Folklore last year, but I teach at a Christian high school and it was Not Okay to bring up some of the, y'know, actual issues engaged by fairy tales.

Plus, I only had two students who were bright and mature enough to handle such discussions. The others were rather ignorant on fairy tales in general, so we spent a large portion of the class just reading and discussing the basic tales from around the world.

Not a loss, certainly, but not as much as I'd hoped!

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

I think I've said it before, but I think you and your job rock. if I'd had courses like the ones you teach at my college, I would've been in heaven. (as it was, I crammed as much English, Clcv and med/ren as I could and was quite content, *g*) I wish I could go about finding universities with classes of my heart and auditing them. of course, I could get more disciplined about my studious reading on my own... ^_^ how did the Deerskin class go?

[heathencorp.livejournal.com]

deerskin is one of my favorite books.
it's also one of the keystones of my 'fantasy literature has a built-in deathwish' arguement that i will turn into a full book before the end of the year if it kills me.

~:)