good character in a fairy tale

 Please read the following fairy tales by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm: "Cinderella," "Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs," and "Rapunzel." (http://www.online-literature.com) or (www.gutenberg.org)

Question3Please discuss one noble or good character in a fairy tale who triumphs over evil or maliciousness. Please post two comments

Question4Please write a paragraph for your Journal with your thoughts about a character, theme, or passage from the required reading.

·Literature Resources

All of the course readings will be available through online resources (through the following websites and databases):

Project Gutenberg

LitFinder (an electronic database which is accessible through the Berkeley library)

http://www.online-literature.com

http://www.readbookonline.net

To access LitFinder, for example, please go to the Blackboard Home Page. Please click on the Library tab and then on Electronic Resources: Databases A-Z. Then please scroll down and click on LitFinder. Please type in the name of the author or the name of the literary work for your search. 

If you would prefer to purchase a text, all of the readings for the course are famous and should be available in all major bookstores. Many college and public libraries in this country will also have copies of the works which we are reading and discussing in this course. Thank you.

·Edgar Allan Poe Link

This link has interesting information about the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe.

·Literary Criticism

·Voice of the Shuttle

·Biographical Information about the Authors

For biographical information on an author please search the following electronic databases which are available through the Berkeley Library:

Bloom's Literary Reference Online

Literature Resource Center

LitFinder

Twayne's Author Series.

To access any of the above databases, please go to the Blackboard Home Page. Please click on the Library Tab. Then please click on Electronic Resources: Databases A-Z. Then please scroll down the list and click on the appropriate database. Thank you.

Websites such as Online Literature (http://www.online-literature.com) also have biographical information about various authors.

·Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online

·Literature Resources

All of the poems for the course will be available through online resources. Some websites which contain biographical information about the authors as well as various literary works by these authors are:

http://www.poets.org

http://www.online-literature.com

http://www.poetryfoundation.org

Some of the poems for the course can also be accessed through LitFinder which is available through the Berkeley Library. To access LitFinder please go to the Blackboard Home Page. Please click on the Library Tab. Then please click on Electronic Resources: Databases A-Z. Then please scroll down the list and click on LitFinder. Please change the search term to author. Please type in the author's name and the name of the poem in the next line. Then please click Search. The full text of the poem will then be available (if the poem is present in LitFinder). Thank you.

If you prefer, you can also find various poems by the important authors in this course in a local library. Many college and public libraries will likely have numerous poems by these authors. 

·Wilhelm Grimm Link

This link contains interesting information about Wilhelm Grimm.

·Bibliography

The following are excellent anthologies of fairy tales:

Andersen, Hans Christian.Eighty Fairy Tales. Trans. R.P. Keigwin. New York: Pantheon, 1976. Print.

Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm. The Complete Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Trans. Jack Zipes. Toronto: Bantam, 1987. Print.

Perrault, Charles. Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales. Trans. A.E. Johnson et al. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961. Print.

The following contain excellent critical studies about fairy tales:

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. "The Queen's Looking-Glass." In The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979. Print.

Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1987. Print.

Warner, Marina. From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1994. Print.

Zipes, Jack. The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1988. Print.

Zipes, Jack. Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry. New York: Routledge, 1997. Print.