Oral Storytelling, Slavic Mythology, Philological Research and Fairy Tales: the Case of Croatian Tales of Long Ago

2019 ◽  
pp. 286-295
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Oral Storytelling

scholarly journals Storytelling as a trigger for sharing conversations

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Louise Parfitt ◽  
Emma Louise Parfitt
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Safe Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Research Analysis

This article explores whether traditional oral storytelling can be used to provide insights into the way in which young people of 12-14 years identify and understand the language of emotion and behaviour. Following the preliminary analysis, I propose that storytelling may trigger sharing conversations. My research attempts to extend the social and historical perspectives of Jack Zipes, on fairy tales, into a sociological analysis of young people’s lives today. I seek to investigate the extent that the storytelling space offers potential benefits as a safe place for young people to share emotions and experiences, and learn from one another. My research analysis involved NVivo coding of one hour storytelling and focus group sessions, held over five weeks. In total, there were six groups of four children, of mixed ethnicity, gender, ability, and socio-economic background, from three schools within Warwickshire. The results confirmed that the beneficial effects of the storytelling space include a safe area for sharing emotions and experiences, and in general for supporting young people outside formal learning settings.

The Revival of Local Fairy Tales for Children Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fathu Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
School Level ◽  
High School Level ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Junior High School Level ◽  
Children Education

This study explored the function of fairy tales as a means of entertainment and education for children. Fairy tales in children's literature have gradually shifted from an oral storytelling tradition to a mass media product. The role of the mother as the first and foremost teacher of her children is increasingly challenged in modern education. From pre-school age up to junior high school level, a child needs special attention from his or her parents, especially the mother. From the age of three until a child enters primary school, the parents, especially the mother, play a strategic role in fostering various aspects of development language, psychology and character. One way in which this takes place is through storytelling, however unfortunately children's literature in the form of local fairy tales often no longer has a place in the home or the kindergarten. This case study in South Sulawesi, Indonesia explored the causes behind this change. Data were gathered through interviews and questionnaires. A simple statistical method was used to analyse the data. The results show that telling fairy tales to children is still relevant and can help to instil character values in young children.

Telling Tales

2017 ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
James Gracey
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Adolescent Girl ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Literary Adaptations

This chapter analyses the fairy tales, folklore, and the art of oral storytelling that are all woven into the very fabric of Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves. It outlines The Company of Wolves's fragmented narrative structure, which exists within the dreams of a sleeping adolescent girl that is comprised of stories told to her by her Granny. It also talks about how The Company of Wolves plays with the form of the fairy tale and its ideas regarding initiation, redemption, and personal and social progress in order to explore the changes and uncertainties of growing up. This chapter explores Jordan and Carter's process of demythologising culturally constructed notions of gender and identity by retelling the very fairy tales that helped establish such notions. It examines the role played by fairy tales in conditioning communities, and how certain tales were repurposed through literary adaptations to educate and instruct different types of audiences.

scholarly journals Cogas, janas e le altre: le creature mitiche e fantastiche nella letteratura e nel cinema sardi

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Myriam Mereu
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Family Aggregation

Sardinian contemporary literature and films have recently recovered an extensive heritage of folk myths and legends taken from the oral tradition. Legendary figures, such as accabadoras (female figure who was enabled with the task of easing the sufferings of the dying people), and fantasy creatures, such as cogas, surbiles (‘vampire witches’), janas (‘fairies, pixies’), and panas (‘the ghosts of women who died in childbirth’) are being revived by writers and film directors with the purpose to bring their memory back to life and share it with a wide audience of readers and spectators. The analysis of imaginary and legendary creatures in Sardinian contemporary literature cannot overlook orality and its central role in shaping popular imagination over the centuries. Writing has replaced orality, whilst mass media and digital media are getting the upper hand over storytelling as a practice of community and family aggregation, meant to mark the long working hours and scare the children, amongst the most common functions of Sardinian oral storytelling.  The literary corpus includes fairy tales, novels, tales and legends dealing with the Sardinian oral tradition, whilst on the cinematic side I will examine short films, feature films and documentaries made in Sardinia over the last fifteen years.

The motive of God's loss in Ukrainian fairy tales

2001 ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
V. Yatchenko
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Point Of View

If we approach the analysis of fairy tales from the point of view of revealing in them a metaphysical dimension of human intentions, then in their subjects one can identify several paradigms. The most important of these should include, in particular, the following: the combination of man with the deity (God); the loss of God's person as a result of her violation of some conditions for coexistence with God; the search for the lost man of God and the rejoining of him. These through-world ideological paradigms, embodied in specific themes (plots), may be adjoined in the same tale, and may exist separately, encompassing all of its plot. All the above applies to Ukrainian fairy tales.

Lingvosemiotic Aspect of Fairy Tales

2019 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
G Syzdykova ◽  
◽  
A Sholakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales

The Alluring Nature of Children's Culture: Fairy Tales, the Carnival and the World Wide Web

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Željka Flegar
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Time Out ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children's Culture ◽  
Language And Ideology

This article discusses the implied ‘vulgarity’ and playfulness of children's literature within the broader concept of the carnivalesque as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World (1965) and further contextualised by John Stephens in Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction (1992). Carnivalesque adaptations of fairy tales are examined by situating them within Cristina Bacchilega's contemporary construct of the ‘fairy-tale web’, focusing on the arenas of parody and intertextuality for the purpose of detecting crucial changes in children's culture in relation to the social construct and ideology of adulthood from the Golden Age of children's literature onward. The analysis is primarily concerned with Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes (1982) and J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2007/2008) as representative examples of the historically conditioned empowerment of the child consumer. Marked by ambivalent laughter, mockery and the degradation of ‘high culture’, the interrogative, subversive and ‘time out’ nature of the carnivalesque adaptations of fairy tales reveals the striking allure of contemporary children's culture, which not only accommodates children's needs and preferences, but also is evidently desirable to everybody.

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