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Introduction to Literature: Fairy tales, folk tales, and how they shape us
University of West Florida Pressbooks
Autumn 2023
Appears in University of West Florida Pressbooks
Abstract
Introduction to Literature: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and How They Shape Us introduces college freshmen to the study of literature through a focus on texts that, generally, they already know, or think they know, and how those texts aim to shape audiences to be compliant cultural objects. The book is organized around several prominent story groups, including various genres and forms, meant to promote discussion and discovery leading to students’ understanding that these texts function as cultural sculptors of readers’ principles and behaviors. Students develop the skill of analyzing texts and creating sound arguments about them through class discussions and a series of writing assignments. Ideally, they leave the course understanding how to create a sound argument and, more pointedly, that there is no such thing as “just a story.”
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Details
- Title
- Introduction to Literature
- Resource Type
- Textbook
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Pressbooks; Pensacola
- Format
- pdf and link
- Number of pages
- 200
- Copyright
- Introduction to Literature Copyright © by Judy Young is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
- Identifiers
- 99380465295906600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; English; Pressbooks; University of West Florida Libraries
- Language
- English
- Course Name
- Introduction to Literature; LIT 2000