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Teaching short fiction: a fairy tale beginning.
Abstract
Non-majors in the general education curriculum respond well to a course in short fiction when they are introduced to familiar works and then prompted to consider variations on those works that force them to rethink comfortable traditions. My fiction course begins with well-known fairy tales followed by little-known variants, then contemporary rewritings. Engagement in the readings prompts students to sell-examination and exploration of the wider world.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Teaching short fiction: a fairy tale beginning.