ENGL 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Germanic Languages
26 Feb 2017
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17th c: perrault; wrote amusing stories for the french court. He didn"t want to associate himself with sill fairytales and originally assigned his sons name as the author. 18th c: term fairy tale appears in english. Early 19th c: grimms; after the napoleon wars they were motivated by nationalism. They were interested in germanic language and culture, they collected stories from people around the country. Character driven literature: considered to be more important; advertised this way due to printing. As a title they draw emphasis on characterization. Realistic characters have a rst and last name: gives individual identities. Cinderella doesn"t have an proper name; it is a nickname: the nickname is a product of bullying (not love) We expect names to identify people but this name gives information about the people around her: shows us that we are dealing with a di erent kind of characterization. Realistic : writers trying to give depictions of actual people.
