Class Notes
INTERPRETATION OF EUROPEAN FAIRY TALES
Week 1: Introduction
What is a Fairy Tale?
What is Interpretation?
Watched Till the Leaves Will Fall from the Oaks (YouTube link)
Week 2: History of European Fairytales, Czech Fairytales in European Context
German fairy tales: The Juniper Tree, Frau Trude
Russian fairy tales: Baba Yaga, Father Frost
Polish fairy tales: Jump, Cudgel, Jump!, The Plague and the Peasant
Hungarian fairy tales: The Diligent Girl and the Lazy Girl, The Two Princes with Hair of Gold
Czech fairy tales: The Three Golden Hairs, Long, Wide and Sharpeyes, Clever Manka, Prince Bayaya, The Clever Princess
Romani fairy tales: The Gypsy and the Priest, Doja, the Gypsy Fairy
Week 3: Socio-historical Interpretation
How history, beliefs, habits, rituals, social orders, and practices are reflected in fairy tales
Read The Firebird and the Red Fox
Watched The Slipper Tearing Princess
Week 4: Initiation Interpretation
How initiation practices are reflected in fairy tales
1st Phase: Separation, Isolation, Departure
2nd Phase: Initiation, Transition, Adventure
3rd Phase: Reincorporation, Return
Watched Krabat, The Sorcerer's Apprentice & Son of the White Mare
Read The Twins, Golden Hill
Week 5: Jungian Interpretation
How Carl Gustav Jung's ideology is reflected in fairy tales
Archetypes, the Self, individuation, Yin-Yang
Read The Three Feathers
Week 6: Freudian Interpretation
How Sigmund Freud's ideology is reflected in fairy tales
Conscious mind, unconscious mind, preconscious mind, id, superego, ego
Psychosexual development, defense mechanisms
Read Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Cap
Week 7: Midterm & Field Trips
Watched The Hat and the Little Jay Feather, Reason and Luck
Field trip to Vysehrad
Field trip to the opera Rusalka
Week 8: Feminist Interpretation
How stereotypical gender roles are reflected in (and can be promoted by) fairy tales
Focused on Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel
Week 9: Darwinist Interpretation
How heredity and natural selection are reflected in fairy tales
Week 1: Introduction
Read "De-Centering the Text: Exploring the Potential for Visual Methods in the Sociology of Food", "Wine and Milk"
Week 2: Food from a Historical Perspective, European Roots
Read "New Worlds and New Tastes: Early Modern Europe," "The Case of Sugar," "Czech Chocolate is the Best!' Nationalism in the Food Industry"
Week 3: Food and Nationalism -- Czech Cuisine
Read "Food, Drink and Identity in Europe," "Language, Patriotism, and cuisine: the formation of the Czech national culture in Central Europe"
Week 4: Food and Nationalism -- You Are What You Eat
Read "Sharing food, sharing taste? Consumption practices, gender relations and individuality in Czech families," "Gastronationalism: Food traditions and authenticity politics in the European Union"
Week 5: Food and Religion
Read "Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food for Medieval Women," "Vegetarianism: A blossoming field of study"
Week 6: Food and Gender
Read "Domestic Divo?," "Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men's Fitness Magazines"
Week 7: Midterm
Week 8: Food and Social Class
Read "Beer in the Czech Republic," "Toward a Psycho-sociology of Contemporary Food Consumption," "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste"
Week 9: Food and Fear (Allergies, Food Contamination)
Read "Food Risks, Anxieties and Scares," "Conclusion: The Politics of Food Choice" from Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
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Week 11:
CZECH & CENTRAL EUROPEAN MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART & ARCHITECTURE
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| Romanesque |
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| Early Gothic (St. Agnes) |
Observation of St. Wenceslas Day
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| Gothic |
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| High Gothic |
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| Neo-Gothic |
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| Renaissance |
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| Baroque |
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| Neo-Classicism |
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| Eclecticism |
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| Art Nouveau |
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| Realism |
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| Impressionism |
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| Neo-Impressionism |
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| Post-Impressionism |
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| Belle Epoque |
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| Japonism |
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| Expressionism |
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| Cubism |
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| Fauvism |
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| Futurism |
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| Abstraction |
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| Cubism |
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| Frantisek Kupka |
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| Villa Bílek |
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| Municipal House |
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| Neo-Classicism |
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| Rondocubism |
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| Josef Capek |