ENGL 3514 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gingerbread Man
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Remember that tales that we have are just those that survived this long, perhaps because they were most told, or they just escaped the literature genocide or wars. Perhaps they had some impact on the culture, or maybe just the right person maintained them. Brings up the question of why they survived. Monomyth- the idea that there is some intrinsic need for certain types of stories, like the. Cinderella stories, perhaps we need an underdog story. We should emphasize that what we"re doing is speculation. Cumulative story, repeat chains of dialogue and actions, (the gingerbread man, keeps running from a different person) They also tend to have a bare plot and a sudden end. Almost feels like trying to reinforce not taking things for granted. Trickster figure, incredibly important, tend to play tricks or disobey common rules and conventions,
