CCO
Welcome to Week 5 of our course. This week we will be returning to the short story form for a reading of Joyce Carole Oates’ chilling work “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Warning: It may give you nightmares.
We will also be reading several works centered on the Snow White story. These include the fairytale “Little Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm and the poem “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by Anne Sexton. We will also be exploring the fairytale Blue Beard. An excerpt from the book The Uses of Enchantment by famed psychologist Bruno Bettleheim will add much to think about with respect to themes and symbolism. These works should be especially interesting as they follow what some have called Joyce Carol Oates’ “inverted fairytale,” “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
