Lecture Outlines

SEMESTER I

Historical roots, famous fairy tale collections, fairy tale types

Lecture 1: Where do fairy tales come from - Historical roots

Lecture 3: Folkloristic division of the world's fairy-tale treasure - Characteristics of the seven fairy-tale regions

Lecture 5: The world view of Sanskrit tales

(Ocean of Fairy Streams)

Lecture 7: The nine genre groups of European fairy tales

Lecture 9: The world view of Hungarian folk tales

Lecture 2: The connection between fairy tale and myth–Creation myths as basic models of world creation

Lecture 4: The 21st century significance of the world's oldest collection of tales (Pancsatantra)

Lecture 6: The Day and Night World of the Thousand and One Nights - The Female Figures of the Thousand and One Nights

Performance 8: The Grimm fairy tales

Lecture 10: The fairy tale as the universal mother tongue of humanity - Profane and secret teachings, symbols in fairy tales

SEMESTER II

Investigation of folktale roles and motifs 

Lecture 11: In what ways are female and male fairy-tale heroes similar and in what ways they are not?

Lecture 13: Helping methods in fairy tales

Lecture 15: The image of death in European folk tales

Lecture 17: Sacred fairytale geography - The importance of fairytale locations

Lecture 19: What does it mean to "live happily?"

Lecture 12: The role of supernatural beings in the hero's journey

Lecture 14: The organic pattern of existence

- Animals and plants

Lecture 16: Miracle and magic in fairy tales

Lecture 18: Order and Disorder in Fairy Tales

Metamorphoses Szabadegyetem

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