Coursera Fantasy

As I've mentioned previously, I was hoping to find a common theme to use to make my mini-essays for the class into a coherent piece of w...

As I mentioned in a previous post , writing essays is not my favorite thing to do... but I love to make up stories. In the classes I teach, ...

Since I had gotten all excited about maybe writing a short story for the assignment, I was definitely bummed that the assignment states very...

Another one of my favorite tale types that shows up here in the Crane book of Grimm stories is The Robber Bridegroom (the version I know be...

I really enjoyed the Hans in Luck discussion in this thread at the course site; someone made a comparison between Hans and Mr. Bean, which ...

Well, frustrating as the Coursera discussion boards may be, my time spent there this morning was amply rewarded: I am SO GRATEFUL to Ulrich ...

Although the discussion boards just seem maddeningly clunky to me, I'm trying to find a few every day to participate in - and one I foun...

I won't have time to write up every story we are reading from Brothers Grimm like this, but I am picking out my favorites to comment her...

Oh, I love stories like The Death of the Hen ... HILARIOUS - and so easy to improvise endlessly, imagining all kinds of animals and inanimat...

Dan Ashliman's website has this BRILLIANT story from 1001 Nights which is a parallel to the Grimm Brothers story about Clever Grethel ...

I am so glad the Lucy Crane Grimm starts out with such a weird and unfamiliar story - The Rabbit's Bride ! With such brilliant illustrat...

I've been listening to an audiobook from Audible.com which contains the tales of the Brothers Grimm in the Margaret Hunt translation; t...

The recommended book for Brothers Grimm is the Lucy Crane translation... with illustrations by Walter Crane (one of my favorite illustrators...