course for KidLit, 2nd year, 1st semester Reading list for the course Difference and Minority in YA Literature, 2nd year KidLit, 1st semester, starting October 2026. Theses inspired by this course: Past theses on Minority topics.
This course will engage a class of writing that everybody is familiar with ever since their their childhood: the fairy tale. We all grew with fairy tales, either told by our parents or grandparents, or seen in their screen versions on TV or in movie theatres. We all followed the Harap Alb’s fantastic journey and Read More ...
course for KidLit, 2nd year, 1st semester Reading list for the course Difference and Minority in YA Literature, 2nd year KidLit, 1st semester, starting October 2026. Theses inspired by this course: Past theses on Minority topics.
This is the start page for the students who started in October 2025. Courses you already had with Dr. Adrian Oțoiu Metafictional Fairy Tales, Kidlit 1.1 When Animals Speak: Animal Tales, KidLit 1.2 Fantastic and Fantasy in KidLit, KidLit 1.2 Courses to come next Difference and Minority in YA Literature, KidLit 2.1. Reading list for Read More ...
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Edit Why is EPUB better than PDF When offered a choice of formats for a book, many of you still prefer PDFs over anything else. PDF — the good PDF was a format meant to keep the info in the exact form as the printed material. Very useful in scientific and technical writing, or in Read More …
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Students who started their BA courses in October 2024. Courses you are taking with Dr. Adrian Oțoiu: Postcolonial Studies, 3rd year, 1st semester 2026-27 If you plan to enroll in our Kid&YA Lit programme, this is what you will study: Year Sem Subject 1 2 Metafictional Fairy Tales 1 1 Fantastic and Fantasy in Children’s Read More …
European fairy tale – sources If you wish to get an idea of the most representative fairy tale for each European nation click on the image below° you will get on tale per country, in summary form and in full: I have put together a list of English translations for fairy tales coming from various Read More …
Gianbatista Basile – Il Pentamerone Giovanni Battista Basile (1566-1632) A short evocation of Basile: Lo cunto de li cunti / The Tale of Tales / Il Pentamerone Published between 1634-6,… …is a collection of fairy tales in Neapoletan dialect (which is very different from Italian…). It was a small-size bookelet: …with decorative chapter pages: Source Read More …
Gianfrancesco Straparola The Pleasant nights Venetian by birth, Giovan Francesco Straparola, or Gianfrancesco Straparola, is the author of one of the oldest surviving collections of fairy tales. Its original title was Le piacevolli notte , and it was published in 1551 (vol.1) and 1553 (vol.2), in Venice. The stories are written in a vernacular that Read More …
Seminar Read the following short texts. Then in class we will be answering the questions: a. Angela Carter – “The Werewolf” This is Angela Carter’s short story ‘The Werewolf”, which is a (post)modernist rewriting of an old fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Cap” a.k.a. “Rotkäpchen” or “Petit chaperon rouge”. I invite you to read now Read More …
Prices of those spices, then and now Here’s a bit of extra info you are invited post, just in order to make us realize how precious some of those colonial merchandise was. Give the price it had at a particular historical moment (in the 16-18 centuries), transformed into lei per kilogram. Use the following tools: Read More …
Rules for seminars As I have explained in class, I am dumping the system of ”class PowerPoint presentations” for two reasons: I am trying to engage more students in each seminar, by adding a number of questions that would encourage them to come up with small morsels (îmbucături) or snippets (bucățele) of info. Here are Read More …
Let’s learn about the anatomy of a sailing ship Before answering the questions below, let’s do some documentation by watching the following two videos! How a 16th century explorers’ ship works (author: Jacob O’Neal, Animagraffs, 41 minutes, but I guarantee you it’s very interesting) And for the later phases of colonial expansion, when the British Read More …