Theories/ Other Readings

Question 1

Tatar: Fairy Tales Audience

Answer 1

• initially adults, then children, now can serve both

Question 2

Tatar: Fairy Tale Types

Answer 2

• magical tales: high adventure
• then cautionary tale: used as a form of socialization and lesson teaching (downfall of protagonist by staging transgression and punishment and maybe a rescue to soften blow)
  -mixing of two created fairy tales

Question 3

Folklore

Answer 3

• ## oral traditions (looses some aspects when written down)

Question 4

Aarne and Thompson catalogue: categories (folklore)

Answer 4

• animal tales, ordinary folktales, jokes and anecdotes, formula tales, and unclassified tales

Question 5

Fairy tales: psychological

Answer 5

• showcase forms of (uncensored) internal conflicts played out in family lives (Freudian), topics on incest, sexual jelousy, sibling rivalry and cannibalism
• red cap turned into symbol of menstruation, golden egg ideals of possession
• can get analysis wrong

Question 6

Fairy Tale interpretation

Answer 6

• symbolic interpretation allows for endless interpretations
• some say therapeutic? Questionable

Question 7

Tatar Conclusion

Answer 7

• can be used to socialize (Jack Zipes)
• has undoubtedly left mark on childhoods
• become both and art and science and for young and old

Question 8

Saunders Adaptation: intertextuality

Answer 8

• literary + author influence to create new compound (TS Elliot)
• can have different goals
  -celebrate ongoing interaction/ conversation of texts

Question 9

Saunders Adaptation

Answer 9

• offering commentary
• make relevant/ easily comprehensible
  -“specific profess involving a transition from one genre to another”

Question 10

Saunders 3 types of adaptation

Answer 10

• Transposition: changing of genre to bring to new audience
• Commentary: commenting on the politics/ themes of the source text (bring out meanings not directly touched on by text)
  -analogue: new product can be enjoyed separately but between when knowledge of previous work

Question 11

Saunders Function of adaptation

Answer 11

-prologue the pleasure of the original piece
- takes memories and puts them into images

Question 12

Saunders Appropriation

Answer 12

• decisive journey away from the informing source text into a new product
• source text not always clearly signalled/ acknowledged

Question 13

Appropriation Conclusion

Answer 13

• different, rethinking of the source
• can create a new cultural and aesthetic possibilities within story

Question 14

Villerajo Mise-En-Scene

Answer 14

Setting (set and props), lighting, costume, makeup and hair, figure behaviour