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Scott
IND
Registered User
(11/30/02 4:30:37 pm)
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Story telling in today's society
Hi everyone,
I'm doing a paper for my english class on fairy tales. More specifically, I am wondering about storytelling in today's society (movies, books, tv, video games) and whether they are as effective in teaching morals as in the past, like 100 years before the Disney-fication of fairy tales and folktales.
Can anyone point me to some resources that address this topic or have an opinion on it?
Thanks!
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cpe
Unregistered User
(12/2/02 9:14:41 pm)
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zipes, dundes, warner
I would think to read again throughout Dundes, Zipes and Maria Warner's fine works... there is much, much there of historic perspective.
all best
cpe
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gregor9
Unregistered User
(12/3/02 9:38:41 am)
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Re: Zipes, Dundes, Warner
Three good places to go looking for historical perspectives.
Your premise, however, raises two immediate questions for me: the first, that fairy tales were intended to teach morals. Charles Perrault aside (and you can have a fine time just examining the morals he decided his stories were teaching), I'm not sure fairy tales as a category exist to teach moral behavior. Overt morals, it seems to me, were often added later, as the stories were recast *for* children. It's not always a good fit, either.
Second, I have to wonder, given the idea that they were for moral instruction, it it can be shown they have ever been particularly successful in this, as opposed to more successful in the past than now. The relationship of fairy tales to society at any particular time and in any particular place is going to be fairly complicated.
Greg
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