Key Terms
a story for children about magic or enchantment
a very improbable story
a lie
What is a fairytale?
Latin Prose Writer
Associated with the Dionysian Mysteries
What is Apuleius?
Chinese foot binding introduced this story type.
What is Cinderella?
The Panchatantra by Vishu Sharma
What is India?
The type of story the Cinderella story frame falls into
What is Rags to Riches?
The selling of the soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, power, or wealth
What is Faustian Bargain?
The only father of fairytales to write his/her own stories
What is Hans Christian Andersen?
Collection of stories that surround one story of a sultan and his wife's attempt to stay alive
What is 1001 Arabian Nights?
Disney's Cinderella is released
What is 1950?
A story that creatively discusses and conceals the message of trust and innocence for young girls
What is The Little Red Riding Hood?
Satisfies the conscious or subconscious desires of the reader/author
What is psychoanalytic criticism?
German linguists who used stories to promote German nationalism
What is the Grimm Brothers?
Introduces the concept of a frame story through interwoven fables surrounding animal stereotypes
What is the Panchatantra?
German linguists compile a bunch of stories of cultural importance into Kinder Und Hausmarchen
What is 1815?
The Little Mermaid gets her tail back right before she admits to Prince Eric that she is a mermaid
fake myth/story that is built upon an existing myth
Invented the term "fairytale"
What is Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy?
The collection of Europe-wide folktales and stories
What is The Blue Fairy Book?
Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy shares her stories with various people of elite status
What is French Salons?
The hatred of women
What is misogyny?
Where the identity of a character is withheld and exposed only during a major dramatic moment
What is Bel-Inconnu?
Used fairytales as a means to teach young children about important life lessons
An in-depth study of the morphology of similar Cinderella-type stories
Charles Perrault publishes The Mother Goose Tales in an attempt to teach young children life lessons
What is 1697?
Changing a story to meet the needs of an audience but keeping the essence and purpose of the original story
What is revisionism?