The MFA Student Community at Whidbey Writers’ Workshop

Directed Reading, Mythology and Folklore

Directed Reading, Mythology and Folklore around the World, Wayne Ude (Directed Reading English 550 Course #2255)

Residency:

World Mythology [WORLD MYTHOLOGY 2/E], 2nd edition (NOT the 3rd), ed. Donna Rosenberg

Mythology, Edith Hamilton

Semester:

The Norse Myths (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library), by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Monkey: Folk Novel of China, by Wu Ch’eng-en, tr. Arthur Waley

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics), R.K. Narayan

African Folktales (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library), Roger Abrahams

African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library), Roger Abrahams

American Indian Myths and Legends, \Richard Erdoes and Alfonoso Ortiz

Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights (Penguin Classics), Malcolm Lyons, Ursula Lyons, Robert Irwin (available February 4, 2010)

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition, by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, and Jack Zipes