there are 3 tales which are Traditional tales, Folk tales and legends. I would you to find these in the power point (And some PDF documents: Traditional Genres and Andersen Innovations) and analyze their specific characteristic. And I also will give you some readings which belong to Traditional tales, Folk tales and legends. I need you found the specific characteristics in these readings and use them to support the theories which in the Power Point (or in PDF documents). ThanksWhat’s more, Anderson didn’t write the Traditional Tales, he change it to the Folk tales and legends. Because of the new social society. Snow White is belong to the Traditional tales.Legends stories examples have two little stories which belong to the Legends.As the folk tales, I am not very sure. so you don’t need write it now. I will tell you the examples about it later. And then, you can add this parts. Thank you.
andersen_innovations.pdf
snow_white.pdf
traditionalgenres.pdf
folklore.pdf
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ANDERSEN’S INNOVATION
In content
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Explicit social satire
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New – urban, bourgeois – themes
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Meta-narrative: story within the story within the story
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Meta-didactic: discussion of morals / values taught
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Explicit (not implied) morals
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Character development & depth of characters
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Depth of relationships between the characters
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Nature alive but not threatening
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Different interpretations possible
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Less predictable
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Excessive episodes
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Randomness of events
In form
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Awareness of the double audience
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Exclamations, direct questions, interjections
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Direct speech
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Less symmetry
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Uses personal names
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Irony, humor
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Parody and absurdity
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Detailed / excessive descriptions of nature and objects
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Detailed description of mental and emotional states
• Original metaphors
Characteristics of the traditional tale:
• The numbers 3, 7, 9 and 12 are customary
• Repetitive (obstacles; gradation; wish fulfillment at the end)
• Stylized, no personal names
– The queen, the step-mother / the king
– The hero/heroine
– The helper
• One hero is not interchangeable for another
• Strict, rigid structure, no deviation (always the same beginning and end –
establishing the genre and expectations)
• No character development and they possess few qualities – only positive or
negative, no “gray” areas
• Contrasts: red & white, black & white, good & bad, high & low, beautiful &
ugly, poor & rich, smart and stupid, clean & dirty
What is valuable:
• Wits, capability in handcrafts; resourceful
• Ability to discern between good and bad, true and false;
• A good heart, humbleness, should not stand out
• Obedience, dutiful
• Things should be done for higher reason, not fun
• Hard-work and perseverance
• Bravery
Oral Folklore
Folktales and Legends
Life on the farm
Close quarters
Intergenerational
Insider/outsider factor
Male mobility/female stasis
Stratified system
Stratified system
Farmer and wife
Children: extreme difference
Elders
Hirelings
Farmed-out children
Tinkers and peddlers
Oral Tradition
Folk Tales
Typical context for folktale
Farm life and folktales
Room: the main house
Groups in the room: farmer and wife, children, elders,
servants
Narrators: elders, tinkers and peddlers
Time: evening
Function: entertainment during handcrafts;
ENTERTAIN AND CODIFY WHAT IS VALUABLE!
Compare The Merman and The Pancake House
Main characteristics of
traditional tales:
The numbers 3, 7, 9 and 12 are customary
Repetitive (obstacles; gradation; wish fulfillment at the end)
Stylized, no personal names
The queen, the step-mother / the king
The hero/heroine
The helper
One hero is not interchangeable for another
Strict, rigid structure, no deviation (always the same beginning and
end – establishing the genre and expectations)
No character development and they possess few qualities – only
positive or negative, no “gray” areas
Contrasts: red & white, black & white, good & bad, high & low,
beautiful & ugly, poor & rich, smart and stupid, clean & dirty
TO CODIFY WHAT IS VALUABLE
Wits, capability in handcrafts; resourceful
Ability to discern between good and bad, true and false;
A good heart, humbleness, should not stand out
Obedience, dutiful
Things should be done for higher reason, not fun
Hard-work and perseverance
Compare and contrast The Swine Herd and Snow White
Compare and contrast
Oral Tradition
Legends
Differences
Legends
Folk-tales
FORM: short, “factual”,
serious, fun
FORM: long, many episodes,
fictional, non-serious,
fun
FEATURES: real-time, realplace, real-person
FEATURES: no-time, noplace, no-person
Typical context for legend:
Context-dependent – everywhere
Narrators
– everyone (but with higher status; NOT the
✓
outsider!)
Function
To warn, to advise, to instruct
To explain phenomena – etiological function
To confirm the existing social structure
Relate the individual to the familiar local milieu
Compensatory escape from social hardship and
injustice
For fun, to kill the time
Spirits of the sea, lakes,
rivers, ponds, marshes
Draugen (a living dead person, ghost)
Nøkken, Fossegrim
Sea-Troll
http://users.skynet.be/fa023784/trollmoon/TrollBlog/files/tagskogsr00e5.html
Spirits of the air
Oskorei (evil spirits)
Spirits of forest and mountain
Trolls
Jutul, Jutun (giants)
Huldre (hidden, underground people)
Household spirits
Nissen
What are our modern stories?
What is your favorite story? (Book, film…) Why? What
values does it codify?
Andersen’s Narrative Style
Compare and contrast The Eleven Swans and The Wild
Swans.
Compare and contrast The Princess Who Always had to
Have the Last Word and Clod Hans.
Compare and contrast The Comapnion and The
Travelling Companion
What values are codified in The Tinderbox?
What values are codified in The Princess and the Pea?
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