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Childrens Literature
Chapter 6
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Undergraduate 4
10/26/2008

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Traditional Literature
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is the body of ancient stories and poems that grew out of the oral tradition of storytelling before being eventually written out.
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Plots
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are shorter than in other genres of literature, all but the essentials disappeared during countless retellings
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Action
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concentrated and fast paced, adding interest
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characters
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are two dimensional and easily identified as a good or bad
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settings
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are unimportantand vague
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literary style
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is characterized by stock beginnings and endings
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motifs
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repeating refrains
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themes
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are limited
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endings
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are almost always happy
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traditional tale
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should sound as though it is being told
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Traditional tale should
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preserve the flavor of the culture or the country of its origin
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employ a rich literary style
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traditional tales
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illustrated versions of traditional literature
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text and illustrations must be high quality
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consider the number and variety of tales in the collection
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when evaluating collections of traditional literature
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softened versions of traditional tales
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robs stories of their power, their appeal, and their psychological benefit to children, who are reassured that the evil force is gone forever and cannot come back to hurt them.
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share unaltered versions of traditional tales
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When children are old enough to cope with the violence or harsh justice they contain?
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traditional stories
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What remained in oral form for thousands of years?
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Cindarella like stories
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Which story have folklorists found all over the world?
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monogenesis
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single origin
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polygenesis
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Many origins, holds that early humans had similar urges and motives; asked similar, fundamental questions about themselves and the world around them; and,logically, created similar stories in response
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Renewed interest in storytelling
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The popularity of traditional literature with children has continued to grow in the twenty first century
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Modern stories
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are written by known authors in the style of the traditional ones but are not of ancient and unknown origin are therefore not tradtional in the strict sense.
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Retold tale
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A version of a tale written in a style that will appeal to a contemporary audience but otherwise remaining true to the ancient tale
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folktales
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sometimes used synonymously with traditional literature
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Variant
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A story that shares elements of plot or character with other stories and its therefore in the same "story family" but differs mainly by culture.
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Myths
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are stories that recount and explain the origins of the world and the phenomena of nature
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Creation stories
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Myths are sometimes referred to as
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are mainly gods, goddesses, with occasional mention of humans, and the setting is high above earth in the home of gods
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Characters in creation stories .
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Greek, Roman and Norse
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Best known mythologies
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Epics
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are long stories of human adventure and heroism recounted in many episodes, sometimes in verse
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Legends
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are stories based on either real or supposedly real individuals and their marvelous deeds.
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Tall Tales
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are highly exaggerated accounts of the expolits of persons, both real or imagined so they may be considered a subcategory of legends
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folktales
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are stories that grew out of the lives and imaginations of the people, or folk
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1697 Tales of Mother Goose
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Charles Perrault
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1812 Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm
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collected fairytales in Germany
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1894 Joseph Jacobs
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collected fairytales in England
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Richard Chase
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"Grandfather Tales & Jack Tales"
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Castle and Cottage Tales
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Class Conscious tales
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fairytales or magic tales
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Kind of folktale having magic characters such as fairies
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fable
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a simple story that incoporates characters typically animals whose actions teach a moral lesson or universal truth, and moral is stated at the end of the story.
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religious stories
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stories based on religious writings or taken intact from religious manuscripts
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parables
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stories of religion
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