Midterm Flashcards
folklore
oral versions of fairytales. had competing versions…could change it…more lower-class/peasants: oppression & hope
literary folktales
printed..can’t change
recrafted oral
oral traditional sources: Ex - Grimm Brothers
original fairytales
using conventions of the genre. Ex: Hans Christian Andersen
Sleeping Beauty version
1634: Giambattista Basile
1847: translated for children story..removed sex/birth/breastfeeding
Precieux
a tone in art-refinement. wealthy women of France took oral french folktales and made them more sophisticated and refined. They took out the carnivalesque aspects
Jack Zipes 3 waves of French fairy tales:
Experimental Salon Fairy Tale: 1690-1703 elitist criticize King Louis XIV
Oriental Tale: 1704-1720 wanted new/diff tales to hear and tell - traveled to the orient and translated into French. More politically correct and conservative
Conventional & Comical: 1721-1789 Adults no longer interested in fairy tales - finds their way in to nurseries. Much more conservative for children tales
Aporia
Strongly didactic…tells which way is right or wrong then argues against it. Saying one thing but your actions argue a diff stance. opinions contradict. a doubt, real or professed, about what to do or say
The Grimm Brothers
Jacob 1785-1863
Wilhelm 1786-1859
Scholars, law men, philologists (LINGUISTS) - history of language..how it changes overtime
protolanguage
the true first language…the Grimm Brothers were trying to find it
Clemens Brentano
wanted to put their collection of fairy tales to music
Olenberg Manuscript
made for Brentano but he lost it…found in a monastery in 1920
Volumes of collections
Volume I: 1812 Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)
Volume II: 1815
LRRH - Perrault
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge and may have had its origins in 17th-century French folklore. The wolf eats the grandma and red..but before asks red to get into bed w/ him
LRRH - Grimm
Took Perrault’s version but they modified the ending; this version had the little girl and her grandmother saved by a huntsman who was after the wolf’s skin - going along with the patriarchal society/belief that a man saves a women
monolithic
one view that applies to everyone
bourgeoisie
middle-class business owner: clean, quiet music, nicer things, sobriety
Terry Eagleton’s ideology
often unconscious (can be conscious) ideas we have about experiencing and feeling (social power over people)
Terry Eagleton’s conception of ideology is the often unconscious ideas we have about being or experiencing the world. These ideas are related to maintaining social power
Carnivalesque
coined by Mikhail Bakhtin
- text, moment, or institution that calls into question the hierarchy, rules & regulations of society
- subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos.
- unacceptable behavior is welcomed and accepted…one’s natural behavior can be revealed without the consequences.
- a “world upside-down”
didactic vs morally ambiguous
didactic - a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities…work that appears to be overly burdened with instructive, factual, or otherwise educational information, to the detriment of the enjoyment of the reader
morally ambiguous - unclear moral (of the story)….lack of clarity in ethical decision-making. That is, when an issue, situation, or question has moral dimensions or implications, but the decidedly “moral” action to take is unclear.
child-centered text
- books that suggest and capable, smart and interested child reader
- also depicts the children in the book as this way as well (capable, smart, etc..)
- morally ambiguous, complicated, deals with violence and sexuality…
adult-centered text
easier for adults to accept - good virtuous adults depicted and in power- children depicted as helpless and needing adults- didactic- imply a scared- nervous and maybe stupid child reader who is scared and off-put by challenge
Official school poetry
Formal and conceptual. Written by adults for children and maybe adults. Sometimes adult centered-Tendency to imagine unsure reader. Text is static doesn’t change only one version -usually read in isolation -read or performed by a single reader -only exists on the page -uses conventional language- serious -if funny it’s clean humor or intellectual humor -embodies restraint and craft -involves adult values and sensibility.
Domesticated playground poetry
Not usually brought into the school meant for the home. Written by adults only for children! Sometimes adult centered or child centered evenly split -read isolation with one reader. Exist on the page only one version. Often scatological. Only suggest scatology but it’s cleaned up not dirty humor. Intellectual, funny, evokes carnivalesque. Content can be violent or scatological but always restrained by adult sensibility of the Coram
Playground poetry
Does not exist on the page, only in the mind and can’t censor or domesticate it. Controlled by children and the child community, parents cannot control it. Written by many authors/people – often children- references can change with the times and modified by the community of children. Content is very carnivalesque- unfiltered by the unconventional morals - still embodies conventional ideological values: racism, dirty language, violence, sexuality. Involves body movement: jumping rope/ clapping hands