Red Riding Hood Stories Flashcards
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Types of Fairy Tales: Folktales
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- Oral
- Adult Literature
- passed through generations
- entertainment
- ordinary people
- no stable form
(once written down it is no longer a folktale)
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Types of Fairy Tales: Literary Fairy tales
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- original tales written down
- some writers appropriate the conventions and write new ones
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Types of Fairy Tales: Historical Context
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- Written down and spread around the time of the printing press (15th C)
- many preserved in chapbooks
-Chapbooks: small, cheaply printed books carried/ sold by chapmen
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Folktales to Fairy Tales
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- oral folktales > fairy tales = establishment of literary genre
- essential conflict at the core of this movement
- used as tool for civilizing or subvert civilizing process
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Fairy Tales: To Civilize
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- make civil/ make moral
- conform to the requirements of civil life/ behave decently
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Subversion of civilizing
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- activity undermining Gov.
- overthrowing of something
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Subversion potential of fairy tales
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- power of fairies
- women writer subversive of male dominated society/ power of church
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Idealogy
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Body of ideas/ beliefs common in a society or culture
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Function of Fairy Tales
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- Teach moral lessons
- Entertain
- socio-cultural function
- Psychological function (imaginative space to confront fears/ desires)
- utopian function
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Red Riding Hood General Info
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- Folkloric Origins
- Numerous versions/ variations
- cautionary tale
- She does wrong things (talk to strangers, disobey parents, gullible, strays from path)
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Characteristics of fairy tales (10)
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-Oral traditions
- Fantasies/ magic
- Imagination
- often a trial
- supernatural beings
- wish fufillment
- transformations
- pattern of three
- reality suspended
-hero/ heroine simple mortal
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Perrault Red Riding Hood
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- moral end
- female virginity required at court
- sexial intrigue and indulgence
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Grimm Little Red Cap
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- Rural women
- Christian elements
- happy ending
- different values
