ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Parataxis, Social Code, Brothers Grimm
9 Jul 2016
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Expectation: de-familiarize fairy tales, approach them as if they are completely new: critical and historical analysis (more than just children"s entertainment) Folk tale versus fairy tale: folk tale: Oral tales, composed, circulated and preserved through speech (survive orally) Communal (someone to tell, someone to listen) Told in a face-to-face setting by a wandering storyteller, in pre- industrial work settings (spinning circles: women threading) Participatory: audience can praise or boo, offer suggestions in real time. Responsive to needs/desires of audience: story teller tailors the story to the audience, can change during the telling based on audience response. Anonymous (no single, identifiable author: fairy tale: Folk fairy-tale: fairy take with clear oral precursor (ex: grimms, Literary fairy-tale: original, not based on a folk tale, no oral precursor. The folk in folk tale : common people , plebeians (latin for common , european peasantry of the pre-industrial period, folk life, rough life.
