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

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 pri...

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Main Author: Macfadyen, Leah P.
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1328