ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parataxis, Wish Fulfillment, Print Culture

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 222
• Professor: Andrew O' Malley

Document Summary

Social structure in pre-modern europe: great chain of being, god, king/pope, aristocracy/church hierarchy, landowners, tradespeople, peasants, lack of mobility. Chain suggests this interconnectedness fixed social structure and unlinking it would cause chaos. Folk tale symbolic abstraction aspirations, desires, needs, frustrations, lived experiences of injustice, hunger, poverty takes all these things and abstracts them into a manageable summary abstracted (shrunk down + made abstract) into a symbolic story. Fairy tale (in print) is an appropriated/stolen folk tale by elite and literate print society/culture . For folk tales to be appropriate for society, it was recodified; the basic structure was retained, but surface details like language, observations, little jokes and commentary are changed to suit a new audience . Coordinating conjunctions ( and ), not subordinating ( since, therefore, thus, etc: material borrowed from existing children"s literature (nursery rhymes) Folk tale qualities/features: no details of name/place/time; jack isn"t a real name, narrative arc: poverty to wealth through magic + wit (lottery mentality)