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From the Spoken to the Written: The Changing Cultural Role of Folk and Fairy Tales Macfadyen, Leah P.

Abstract

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 print capitalism, and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of cultural capital and the power of language.

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From the Spoken to the Written: The Changing Cultural Role of Folk and Fairy Tales
Creator Macfadyen, Leah P.
Contributor University of British Columbia. Skylight (Science Centre for Learning and Teaching); University of British Columbia. Arts Instructional Support & Information Technology
Date Issued
2004
Description
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 print capitalism, and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of cultural capital and the power of language.
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Subject fairy tales; collective memory; culture; ritual
Genre Article
Type Text
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application/pdf
Language
eng
Date Available
2008-08-09
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0303102
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1328
Affiliation Arts, Faculty of; Science, Faculty of
Citation
Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, X(1): 143-153
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Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Researcher
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