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Folk Tales West Wind
1,296 words"Once upon a time, " the way most famous most Norwegian folk tales start. Although Soria Moria Castle states There was once a couple who had a son, the idea is basically the same. The people in Norway are used to long and harsh winters and have had to find something to pass the time for centuries. One of their more prominent methods of passing the time has been the re-telling of folktales. Possibly the most famous, Soria Moria Castle is one of their favorites. In the following pages a brief desc...
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Racial Undertones In Brer Rabbit
559 wordsAmong the finest of America's humorists and Southern local-color writers, Joel Chandler Harris, b. Eatonton, Ga. , Dec. 9, 1848, d. July 3, 1908, did much to popularize American Negro plantation culture. His most memorable creation, "Negro Folklore: The Story of Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox, as Told by Uncle Remus, " first appeared in the Atlanta Constitution on July 20, 1879. The popularity of the story led him to publish the collection Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings (1880). In the 1880 s Harris ...
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Greatly Enjoyed African American Literature
564 wordsThere are two separate types of preconceptions which can bring into a class of this nature. The first deals with the literature itself. In my case, preconceptions pertaining to African American literature are non-existent. The absence of knowledge pertaining to a specific subject prevents one from constructing any meaningful preconceptions. The second type of preconception deals with the African American culture. I, like any other human being, have formed certain prejudices and stereotypes towar...
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Analysis Of The Twelve Dancing Princesses
431 wordsIn the folk tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses, the main characters are a poor soldier, twelve princesses, and their father, the King. This is important because in German folklore, there is always a pauper esque character and a powerful, rich man (often the King), thus showing the contrasts between the two feuding social classes of the era in which these stories were told. Also, the women of this story, as in all the folk tales we read, have very few lines, and do as they are told. This shows th...
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Urban Legends Good Times
1,927 wordsImplicit in the rhetoric of the Information Superhighway is the understanding that through this technology, individuals will better understand the world around them, establishing a stronger sense of community through open dialogue. An examination of folktales and urban legends on the Internet, however, suggests that, if anything, this technology is becoming increasingly mythologized and is leading to a new sense of domestic alienation. In the years since Carl Lindahl noted that turning to modern...
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Hughes Culture Common
209 wordsA folktale is a general term for any of numerous varieties of traditional narrative. The telling of stories appears to be a cultural and universal tradition, common to primitive and complex societies alike. Folktales are demonstrably similar from culture to culture, and comparative studies of themes and narrative techniques have been successful in showing these relationships. Fairy tales are entirely fictional and often begin with such formulas as? Once upon a time. Which is not the case in most...
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Carl Grimm Was Born Grimm Was Born Jacob
733 wordsThe Brothers Grimm Matthew Malacarne All over, the world children have grown up with the Grimm brothers Nursery and Household Tales. The 200 stories usually called Grimm's Fairy Tales, that have stories in them like Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, and Rumpelstiltskin, have been translated into 70 languages. The Grimm brothers first collected these stories, though scholars have found that the brothers often made the tales as they thought were good before they published them. To the scholars of their...
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