What Do Fairytales Mean? The Interpretation of Popular Narrative Tradition
Time: 11.30am - 12.30pm
Over the past two centuries, writers and scholars have advanced arguments for profound, hidden meanings in popular narrative traditions. This lecture explores some of these arguments, touching upon psychoanalytic, political and socio-historical explanations of the meaning of fairytales. Ultimately, however, this lecture proposes that fairytales mean what each generation wants them to mean, and this is why they have survived.
Speaker: Dr Andrew Teverson, Kingston University
Date and Time: Saturday 22 June 11.30am - 1pm
Venue: Room 0001, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus
Prices: Tickets £5, concessions £3, free to Kingston University staff and alumni
For more information on the programme, see www.kingstonconnections.co.uk ; for tickets, contact www.rosetheatrekingston.org