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From the Spoken to the Written: The Changing Cultural Role of Folk and Fairy Tales

University of British Columbia. Skylight (Science Centre for Learning and Teaching); University of British Columbia. Arts Instructional Support & Information Technology

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.

fairy tales; collective memory; culture; ritual

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eng

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0303102

Arts, Faculty of; Science, Faculty of

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