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Title: Last lecture Todays lecture


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Last lecture Todays lecture
  • A bit on Zipes
  • Legend as related to myth and tale
  • Performance and collection (chart 1)
  • Content (chart 2)
  • Legend types
  • Historical
  • Contemporary or urban
  • Two more words on Zipes
  • Two more words on myth, legend, tale
  • Historical legends
  • Modern legends and sample interpretations

2
Zipes
  • Conflicting American desires to be rebellious
    and independent
  • The no-rules just right mentality
  • Desire to be recognized and bought up by the main
    stream
  • Film examples
  • Software design
  • Small companies
  • Recall Old home-style cookies then new and
    improved Old home-style cookies

3
Legend related to myths and tales
  • Apparent progression of mythhistorical
    legendcontemporary legendtale
  • Sacredsecularfantastic
  • Beginning of timelong time agonow never, never
    time
  • Progression is apparent only in some cases it is
    there elsewhere it is NOT
  • Whether mythic element found in legend or in tale
    indicates whether it is believed not stage in
    progression

4
Historical legends
  • American General Custer and the battle of Little
    Big Horn 2 versions
  • Fits pattern of the death of the arrogant hero
    hubris punished
  • Parallels in Robin Hood, Turkish Koroglu, Russian
    Volga, Sviatogor old and very serious stories
  • Modern stories of arrogance? Darwin awards. Few
    Russian stories. What does this indicate?

5
Castration and strange birth myths
  • American George Washington and the cherry tree
  • Basis in Greek myth
  • Only creation out of a severed body part is
    Russian Tom Thumb severed thumb or finger
  • This is tale no longer believed

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More severed body parts
  • Severed arm or hand retains a life of its own
    exists as a serious legend, both Russian and US

7
Strange births usually from mating with
non-human
  • Myth
  • Greek Zeus impregnating women
  • European bear son
  • Russian
  • Bear son in tales only
  • American
  • Devil baby
  • Big Foot baby

8
Russian historical legends
  • Continue to be told, in US and Russia
  • Ivan the Terrible
  • Drives out witches/crows
  • Punishes the Moscow River
  • Rebels such as Pugachev
  • Identifies the village vampire
  • Robin Hood figure Stenka Razin
  • His death
  • Ability to make bulletproof cloth
  • Ability to escape locks, boats
  • Stenka as a treasure spirit

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More Russian legends
  • How Stenka Razin became a bandit story of his
    brother real or legend
  • Or some kind of general truth
  • Determining where to build a village
  • Sacrifice so that city walls will stand
  • Old Believer stories
  • Buried treasure
  • Mass suicide

11
Contemporary legends and current concerns pet
stories
  • Microwave
  • Chinese restaurant
  • Baby sitter on drugs
  • Cat substitute Richmond and Moscow
  • Dead pet series
  • Cat and salmon at garden party
  • Cat rescue
  • Catapult cat

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Pet legends interpreted
  • Trickster material and pet/child link
  • Especially the cat
  • Do these legends talk about child abuse?
  • What do they say?
  • Expression of desire
  • Expression of fear
  • Focus on children Baby on board
  • Parody Grandma in trunk (plays on legend)
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