Posted: September 16th, 2017

Oral Literature Analytical

FOLK 2401/ENGL 2601: Oral Literature Analytical Assignment
AKA the Märchen Assignment:
The purpose of this assignment is to get you to use the tools that have been employed by folklorists for the cross-cultural study of Märchen. When it is completed, hopefully you will have acquired both an appreciation for some of the methods of folklore scholarship and concerns about the adequacy of these methods for fully discussing a piece of oral narrative.

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1. Select one of the Märchen presented in the first three sections of Folk and Fairy Tales.
Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, or Cinderella
2. Using the description in the Tale Type Index, compare and contrast the versions
The entries from the Tale Type Index for each Märchen will be available on Moodle. The Tale Type Index provides an embryonic plot and a list of common motifs. All of your versions have been identified as being of the same type: how are they similar? Where do they diverge? What motifs are common to all, which are absent, and which are idiosyncratic?
If you come across something that strikes you as odd (which is almost the definition of motif) and which is not listed in either the Tale Type Index or in the notes accompanying the versions you have found, see if you can find it in Stith Thompson’s six-volume Motif Index (an electronic version of which is available online: link on Moodle).
Through comparison, you should be able to see why the editors assigned the respective versions that same AT number: but you might also make a case that how they differ is equally important to how they are similar. (About a page or two)
3. Selecting one of the versions, analyse its structure using Vladimir Propp’s
Morphology of the Folk Tale.
Does the tale correspond to what Propp says? Are there particular functions performed by particular dramatis personae that occur in a particular sequence that, when drained of the specifics of motif, are shared with virtually every tale? (A paragraph or two)
4. Next, analyse its composition using Axel Olrik’s “Epic Laws of Folk
Narrative”
This is more how the tale is told or performed, rather than how the tale is structured. The distinction is, it could be argued, a false one, but one that can be legitimately employed for purposes of analysis. (A paragraph or two)
5. Now analyse its theme according to Bengt Holbek’s “The Language of Fairy Tales”
Do you see evolutions in the leading character from one stratus to another? (a paragraph or two)

6. In a short (2-3 pages) write-up, summarise your findings
Take your discoveries and put them into a larger context. What were the noticeable similarities and differences between your versions? Were there things about the texts, when compared, that you noticed but which could not be addressed by a type and motif approach? What did the tales themselves offer in a way of insight into the specific cultural contexts in which they were collected? How could these cultural particularities be addressed? For the structural and formal analysis, how effective are they for your particular tale? Why do we consider these “the same story”? As you start to summarise your findings, you should be thinking about differences in audience, media, and genre.
Included in the write-up should be a reflection on the process: what you found interesting, what you found tedious, what you found pointless, what you found lacking, what you think yourself unprepared for, and any questions you need to feel resolved.
About 6-7 pages

Take the source from cape Breton university library
Use simple word because I’m international student
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