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2022-2023 Westminster College Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Westminster College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 142 - Fantasy, Fairytales and Folklore

Semester Hours: 4

This course will examine the ways in which popular and classical literature spanning the thirteenth through the twenty-first centuries underscores the importance of fantasy, fairy tales, and folklore to Western culture. Course texts range in genre from fiction and nonfiction to poetry, drama, and film and include works by authors such as The Pearl Poet, Shakespeare, the Brothers Grimm, Dickens, Tolkien, and Rowling. Though significant time will be devoted to discussing issues of audience, the main goal of the course will be to explore how these texts use the fantasy realm to comment on very “real” social, political, and spiritual issues.

Intellectual Perspective: HC