103年第1學期-0186 文討：民間故事研究 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Class attendance, participation, oral reports	30
Mid-term exam	30
Final paper	40

教育目標

This course studies folktales worldwide, using anthropological, structural, and psychological approaches. Students are expected to learn the deep meanings of folktales and how they reflect and relate to human life in different cultures. Two popular juvenile novels are selected to be studied along with the folktales in order for the students to compare genres and to extend their knowledge of folktales to other types of literary expressions. Oral reports and group discussions will be conducted in class. A mid-term exam and a final paper are required.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：三/7,8[LAN002]
修課班級：外文系3,4
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：畢業前須修兩門文討 需填申請單

參考書目

Burnett, Francis Hodgson. The Secret Garden. NY: Dell, first published 1938.
Miller, Lucien, ed. & trans. South of the Clouds: Tales from Yunnan. Seattle: U. of
Washington, 1994.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. The Little Prince. Trans. Katherine Woods. NY: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1943, 1971.
Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana U., 1968.
The following selections are on reserve at the Departmental Library:
Dorson, Richard M., ed. Folktales Told around the World. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1975.
“The Mother Serpent,” India, 181-187.
Eberhard, Wolfram, ed. Folktales of China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
“Kung Yeh-ch’ang Understands the Language of Birds,” 83-86.
Lee, F. H., ed. Folk Tales of All Nations. NY: Coward-McCann, 1932.
“The Talking Bird,” China, 356-357.
“The Maiden with the Wooden Bowl,” Japan, 697-699.
“The Story of the Stone Lion,” Tibet, 923-927.
Seki, Keigo. Folktales of Japan, trans. Robert Adams. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1963.
“Momotaro, The Peach Boy,” 40-43.
“The Snail Choja,” 82-90.
“The White Bird Sister,” 92-98.
“The Skeleton’s Song,” 145-148.
Recommended Theory and Criticism
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment. 1975.
Hall, Nor. The Moon and the Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine. NY: Harper
and Row, 1980.
Iser, Wolfgang. The Implied Reader. 1974.
----,--------------. The Act of Reading. 1979.
Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Raw and the Cooked, tr. by John & Doreen Weightman. 1969
(1964)
Luthi, Max 0. Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Bloomington: Indiana U,
1976.
Neumann, Erich. The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, translated by Ralph
Manheim. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972.
Piaget, Jean. The Child's Conception of the World. 1929.
Sale, Roger. Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E.B. White. 1979.
Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton Univer