People
Texts
Key Terms/Concepts
Historical Context I
Historical Context II
100
A Russian folklorist, interested in the structure of tales
Who is Vladimir Propp?
100
The collection of tales prepared by the brothers Grimm
What is Children and Household Tales? DAILY DOUBLE!
100
the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice that is disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral example.
What is folklore?
100
A loosely organized school of thought that attempted to identify the function of various literary devices, and that influenced Vladimir Propp.
What is (Russian) Formalism?
100
The King of France during Charles Perrault's time.
Who is King Louis XIV?
200
The "father" of American anthropology, and one of the earliest professional folklorists
Who is Franz Boas?
200
An academic study of folklore that claims that all tales follow a certain pattern--inauguration of plot, donor sequence, test, and reward.
What is "Morphology of the Folktale"?
200
a key characteristic of folklore, the idea that it exists in more than one version
What is variation?
200
An intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries, the goal of which was to challenge institutions based on tradition or faith and to build a rational society.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
A period in history after 1760 that caused Europe's population to become much more urban.
What is the Industrial revolution?
300
A member of the French bourgeoisie who used the oral tales of peasants to write literary stories for France's elite
Who is Charles Perrault?
300
This book is an index of tale types from around the world, organized by genre.
What is the A/T Index?
300
The idea that folklore has no particular author
What is anonymity?
300
The specific field of folklore studies in which Aarne and Thompson worked.
What is comparative folkloristics?
300
This particular psychological approach to folklore is based on the work of Freud and Jung.
What is psychoanalysis?
400
The author of classic tales like "the Emperor's New Clothes" and "the Little Mermaid."
Who is Hans Christian Andersen?
400
The title of this collection of stories means "fantastic tales."
What is "Eventyr"?
400
The key feature of folklore, accounting for both how it is transmitted and why it so often changes from one version to the next.
What is orality?
400
These three factors contributed to the idea that civilization was a process of continual progress, rather than degeneration, in the context of the professionalization of folklore.
What are the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Colonialism/Empire?
400
Gender studies holds that this concept refers to a social construction, instead of a biological reality.
What is gender?
500
Two folklorists, from Finland and Indiana (USA), who share credit for one of the most important tools at the disposal of contemporary folklorists.
Who are Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson?
500
The title of this collection of tales specifically refers to the oral origin of the stories it contains, and the subtitle introduced "Mother Goose" into the history of tales.
What is Perrault's "Contes"?
500
The template we all have in our heads for a particular story or other item of folklore, against which all versions are judged.
What is normalform?
500
The name given to the argument during Perrault's time over whether 17th century French literature and art could ever surpass its ancient Greco-Roman models.
What is the "Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns"?
500
These two "isms" describe the intellectual and political environment in which the brothers Grimm collected and published their tales
What are romanticism and nationalism?
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