ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Geoffrey Chaucer, C. S. Lewis
Document Summary
One of the ways scholars answered the question (what do the new boundaries mean?) was through the use of literature. The grimm brothers were linguists not story tellers. Stories told over and over in different ways are important. Stories that are so well known, we can"t remember where we first heard them: c. s lewis; a myth. What makes a story: specific, tell-ability, beginning, middle, climax, conclusion, characters, plot, point of view, events happen in time (sequence), conveying of experience. Jacobs: cinder maid took all versions of cinderella in an attempt to make the first and most correct story. ended up being just another version. the narrator is not in our world, but not in the storyworld either. (heterodiegetic) Perrault: cinderella cleaned up version (fairy instead of birds, no mutilation) disney based the narrator makes morals very clear. Things in common: no time or location, balls, magical transformations, happy endings, similar plots.
