CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Folklore, Vladimir Propp, Silver Age
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Divine race of heros called half gods: iron age, our current age, full of toiland abd luck, old age, and bad manners. Hippolytus: the gods love those whom they destroy: son of theseus, the king of athens, hippolytus is falsely accused of rape, he dies by his horses, his bones were buried in aphrodite sanctuary. Heros are local, unknown people that are very dear to the community they were born in: how these heros die is important, communities are very personal to them. Legend: kinds, queens, definitie individuals that are noble that are thought to live in specific times that have to deal with their shit (wars, etc, king arthur, deal with bigger issues. In the second generation of the trojan war, so and so . Folktale: deal with lower class people that aren"t royalty, not set at a particular time or place, very vague on setting and time. Involve lower class issues, not wars or political shit: rumplestilkskin.
