From the Spoken to the Written: The Changing Cultural Role of Folk and Fairy Tales

Description

This paper explores the cultural roles of tale-telling, and how these roles may
have been transformed by the transcription of folk and fairy tales into “literature,” with reference
to Paul Connerton’s ideas of habit-memory and collective identity, Benedict Anderson’s writing
on the rise of print capitalism, and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of cultural capital and the power of
language.

Links & Downloads

1. Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, X(1): 143-153
2. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1328

Tags

fairy tales

collective memory

culture

ritual

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/1328
Date	January 2004
Creators	Macfadyen, Leah P.
Source Sets	Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	text