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 …
Seminar 1: A. Pirates Here are several questions that invite a short (90-second) oral answer in class. RULES see RULES FOR SEMINARS: PIRACY QUESTIONS: This is not your Hollywood pirate! It’s an old engraving (gravură) from 1724. representing ”Bartholomew Roberts Shown With His Ships Royal Fortune And Ranger And The 11 Ships They Captured Off Read More …
Seminar 1, 2, 3: B. Goodies from the colonies This is a theme that will begin on Oct 15, and will continue on Oct 24 and 31. So we can only take 3-4 items each seminar! We will be trying to figure out what were the „goodies” that attracted the interest of British traders to Read More …