Celtic Studies and European Folk-Tale Research

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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SERGEY PROKOFIEVâ€™s PETER AND THE WOLF THROUGH AN INTERMEDIAL LENS

Mousaion ◽

10.25159/0027-2639/173 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 140-154

Author(s):

Elma De Kock

Keyword(s):

Research Method ◽

Theoretical Foundation ◽

Original Music ◽

Folk Tale ◽

Sergey Prokofiev ◽

Poetic Text ◽

Practice Based Research ◽

The Media ◽

Artistic Product

Peter and the wolf is an intermedial work based on a folk tale originally written and composed by the Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev in 1936 (Hanson and Hanson 1964). Since few recent adaptations of the work in Afrikaans exist, a combined intermedial project was undertaken to recreate the work using practice-based research. The stages of this research method have brought forth a poetic text, the realisation of the original music, illustrations, and a voice artist to read the created text. To accomplish the final artistic product, it was important to obtain a theoretical foundation of practice-based research, intermediality, adaptation and the different media involved in the created word. The intermedial effects between the different media in the project provided the results of the study, stemming not only from the readersâ€™ simultaneous experiences of the media as they read or listen to the work but, as it also became clear, from the mutually complementary effects between the different media of which their combination provided a richer final product.

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Wosien, Maria-Gabriele. The Russian Folk-Tale : Some Structural and Thematic Aspects. Munich, Verlag Otto Sagner, 1969. 237 pp.Wosien, Maria-Gabriele. The Russian Folk-Tale : Some Structural and Thematic Aspects. Munich, Verlag Otto Sagner, 1969. 237 pp.

Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes ◽

10.3138/cmlr.28.1.92 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 92-93

Author(s):

Andrew Donskov

Keyword(s):

Folk Tale

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Lincolnshire Folk-Tale

Notes and Queries ◽

10.1093/nq/s8-x.258.454d ◽

1896 ◽

Vol s8-X (258) ◽

pp. 454-454

Author(s):

W. M. E. F.

Keyword(s):

Folk Tale

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Folk-tale : The king and the falcon

Notes and Queries ◽

10.1093/nq/s12-iii.57.77a ◽

1917 ◽

Vol s12-III (57) ◽

pp. 77-77

Author(s):

N. Powlett

Keyword(s):

Folk Tale

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Developing Metacognitive Thinking in Young Children: A Case Study

Gifted Education International ◽

10.1177/026142949801300104 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 23-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tom Lowrie

Keyword(s):

Young Children ◽

Point Of View ◽

Folk Tale ◽

Metacognitive Processes ◽

Questioning Techniques

This article reports a case study involving a talented Year 1 (aged 6) child who was challenged to “take another person's point of view” when responding to a series of questions based on a well-known folk tale. It is argued that the use of effective questioning techniques allowed the child to develop a variety of metacognitive processes.

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