ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gingerbread Man, Northrop Frye, Brothers Grimm
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The gingerbread man refrain: run, run, just as fast as you can / you can"t catch me, i"m the. Gingerbread man. : 1875 anonymous in st. nicholas"s magazine got from servant girl, who got from old lady fox eats him in the end after catching him. Aarne-thompson classification system: animal tales, tales of magic, religious tales, realistic tales, tales of the stupid ogre/giant/devil, anecdotes and jokes, formula tales (e. g. the gingerbread man) it has a chain arrangement. Motif (e. g. those recurring things, doesn"t constitute whole tale but are there) The desire to animate the inanimate anthropomorphism (e. g. tales of food running away) Might want to animate something to give something comedic relief: cartoons - running off a cliff, and before falling running in air not possible in reality. Irony two competing systems, operating simultaneously, thing seems it should be confusion but rather it"s an interesting conflict.
