Last lecture Todays lecture

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Last lecture Todays lecture

• Genres of folklore
• Functions of the various genres
• E-folio and your 5 criteria assignment

• Finish genres (most last time were poetic genres
  today will be prose)
• Folklore collecting and scholarship the Brothers
  Grimm

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Genre list

• POETIC GENRES
• Epic
• Ballad
• Lyric song
• Other folk poetry
• Riddles
• Proverbs

• PROSE GENRES
• Legends
• Religious
• Supernatural
• Historical
• Urban
• Myths
• Folktales

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Finish poetic genres and their functions

• More droodles
• Russian insults, riddles and cultural relevance
• Disaster jokes, other genres and relevance to
  culture, individual, event
• Folklore as information source
• Proverbs and parodies

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Legends and anecdotes

• Religious
• Supernatural
• Historical
• Urban
• Internet?
• Fabulates
• Memorates

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Myths

• Serious
• Cosmogonic creation stories
• Told as part of ritual
• George Washington myths?

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A few more words on categories

• Useful as a tool
• Are NOT the whole true
• Vampire exists as BOTH a legend and a tale
• I will tell them about the MANY categories of the
  folktale soon
• Need only know 3-way division

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Folktale categories

• Animal tales
• Ordinary folktales (magic tales)
• Jokes and anecdotes (tales of everyday life)
• Differences between these and legend
• Early tale collections the Brothers Grimm
• Reasons for their interest
• Their techniques

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Brothers Grimm continued

• Their assumptions based on WRITTEN original,
  based on serious lit.
• Size of the Grimm collection and discovery of
  cross-national parallels
• Connections between tales and language and the
  Indo-European theory

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Indo-European language families

• Sanskrit and Hindi
• Farsi and Persian
• Slavic
• East Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
• West Polish, Czech, Slovak
• South Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovene
• Romance French, Spanish, Italian
• Germanic English, German, Dutch