GER 10- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)
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Oedipus: moved into christianity, turning cradle = anonymous child abandonment, moses abandoned on nile. Iron curtain: witch hunt, wisconsin senator, hunt for communist (traitors, sleeping beauty changes, adding of name: aurora, individualized, against fairy tale tradition, not generic, add jokes, abstract act (ex. 1812 then 1815 (86 vs 156 stories, first for scholar but had bad reviews so for children) Oral: formulaic with building blocks, passed for generations for huge flexibility. Supernatural: magic, gather bones of dead + boil to relive, animal speaking) Polygenesis = originates in different places, diffusion = tale travels, contamination = spreads like a virus (problem: unidentifiable age of tale) Written: written is contaminated, no interaction, semi-literate process. Violence and sexuality (father with incestuous desires like thousandfurs) Cruel punishments: putting in barrel with nails, burn at stake. Audience: adults around spinning circles, sewing parties, fireside, pornography of the day, from lower class where favors weak class + king are middle class.
