ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Arnold Van Gennep, Vladimir Propp, Hero Tales
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Folk and fairy tales: international folk motifs and their influence: folk tales: spoken, passed on through oral tradition, told for generations, fairy tales: written versions of oral tales, edited revised tidied up , literary form for. Joseph campbell (the hero with a thousand faces 1949) Middle class values and historical bias: 19th c romaniticism, return to sources, nature, the folk . Hansel and gretel: small weak antagonist facing power. Cap o" rushes : cinderella figure active, not [assive, rejection instead of literal death, rushes, not cinders, not magic, practical self-rescue, father repents, realizes error. The indian cinderella: reverse on eurpoean model, bride seeks prince, strong female partners: sister and wife. The frog king or iron heinrich: probably the oldest european animal bridegroom story; linked to oral tradition, female character one-dimensional, unlikable, small beast in this story, sparse style, more questions than answers.
