C LIT243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fairytale Fantasy, Talking Animal, Orbital Inclination
15 May 2018
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January 26, 2018
Eckbert the Blond
• Ending???
• Descriptive
• Youthfulness of Berta – children matured sooner than contemporary society
• More structured than past stories – flowed from intro-body-end rather than being all
over the place
• Psychoanalysis
• Oral roots
• Example of good literary fairytale – departures from traditional conventions
• Old woman with magical powers
o Old woman in Snow White?
o Creepy and suspicious
o Actions never malicious but had subtext of creepiness
o Looks like witch
• Motif of journey – metaphorical journey
o Physical journey – ould’t hae talked to old oa
• Significant emphasis on nature
o Basis of romanticism: ideas of emotion being connected to it
• Nurturing/Oppression of child
o Parents vs old woman
o Nurturing leads to passion (spinning, reading, etc.)
• Ho a e situate Ekert the Blod i gere of folk/fairytale?
o Presence of witch-like character and magic
o Talking animal characters
o Repetitive rhyme/verse and other formulaic elements
o Incorporation of trial and prohibition, violation of prohibition, ensuing
punishment
o Mai haraters’ jourey ad trial
o Referee to gere of fairytale I oly ask that you do’t regard y story as a
fairytale)
• In opposition to the folktale/fairytale conventions:
o Not inherently good/virtuous and cannot be conceptualized as traditional
hero/heroine
o Romantic "witch" is reconfigured as benevolent character close to nature and in-
depth knowledge of herbology
o Human being presented as fundamentally flawed
o Emphasis on exploration of the human psyche
o No happy resolution
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