The Cape Malays: History, Religion, Traditions, Folk Tales. The Malay Quarter

Edward Hulmes; I. D. Du Plessis

doi:10.2307/1594671

The Cape Malays: History, Religion, Traditions, Folk Tales. The Malay Quarter

Journal of Religion in Africa ◽

10.2307/1594671 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 231

Author(s):

Edward Hulmes ◽

I. D. Du Plessis

Keyword(s):

Folk Tales

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Grimm Legacies

10.23943/princeton/9780691160580.001.0001 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Jack Zipes

Keyword(s):

Fairy Tales ◽

Oral Tradition ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Folk Tales ◽

Brothers Grimm ◽

Folk Tale ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

High Standards ◽

Wilhelm Grimm

This book explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. The book reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world—the fairy tale. Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sought to discover and preserve a rich abundance of stories emanating from an oral tradition, and encouraged friends, colleagues, and strangers to gather and share these tales. As a result, hundreds of thousands of wonderful folk and fairy tales poured into books throughout Europe and have kept coming. The book looks at the transformation of the Grimms' tales into children's literature, the Americanization of the tales, the “Grimm” aspects of contemporary tales, and the tales' utopian impulses. It shows that the Grimms were not the first scholars to turn their attention to folk tales, but were vital in expanding readership and setting the high standards for folk-tale collecting that continue through the current era. The book concludes with a look at contemporary adaptations of the tales and raises questions about authenticity, target audience, and consumerism. The book examines the lasting universal influence of two brothers and their collected tales on today's storytelling world.

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Toni Morrison's Tricksters: A Variation of Tricksters as Heroic Figures in the Traditional African Folk Tales

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.22505/jas.2019.51.2.04 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 77-99

Author(s):

Yong Cheol Lee

Keyword(s):

Folk Tales

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Epilogue

10.1093/oso/9780190848583.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Matthew D. C. Larsen

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Cultural History ◽

Future Study ◽

Digital Humanities ◽

Methodological Framework ◽

Folk Tales ◽

Literary Structure ◽

Early Christian

Approaching the Gospel according to Mark as unfinished notes, the author argues that literary critics do not “find” nuanced literary structure in the text. They produce it—not unlike what the Gospel according to Matthew does with the Gospel according to Mark. The author proposes a new methodological framework for future study of early Christian gospels. He points to an example from cultural history (Robert Darnton’s work on eighteenth-century French folk tales) and to possible projects in the digital humanities in order to begin to think about how to reconceptualize the process of gospel writing.

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