EN 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tall Tale, Emma Watson, Heterosexism
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The second element i wish to emphasize is: short story that typically features of entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, griffins, mermaids. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends: and explicitly moral tales including beast fables. (cid:498)folklore(cid:499: fairy tell can be a far fetched story or tall tale: happy endings. Legends are perceived as real and fairy tales may merge into legends: folklore is the expressive body of culture hared by particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. These include oral traditions such as tales, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture: primary point about folklore is that the oral tradition means that a folktale does not exist in a permanent printed form that all readers must accept as text. I"m sure i want to marry him i said(cid:499) pg. 2: subtleties of the story is the narrators innocence.
