Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's LiteraturePsychology Press, 1998 - 316 pages What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses Bible stories, classical myths, heroic legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales, 'oriental' tales, and other stories derived from European cultures. One chapter is devoted to various retellings of classics, from Shakespeare to Wind in the Willows. The authors offer a general theory of what motivates the retelling of stories, and how stories express the aspirations of a society. An important function of stories is to introduce children to a cultural heritage, and to transmit a body of shared allusions and experiences that expresses a society's central values and assumptions. However, the cultural heritage may be modified through a pervasive tendency of retellings to produce socially conservative outcomes because of ethnocentric, androcentric and class-based assumptions in the source stories that persist into retellings. Therefore, some stories, such as classical myths, are particularly resistant to feminist reinterpretations, for example, while other types, such as folktales, are more malleable. In examining such possibilities, the book evaluates the processes of interpretation apparent in retellings. Index included. |
Table des matières
Chapter 1 Pretexts Metanarratives and the Western Metaethic | 3 |
Biblical Literature as PreText | 25 |
The Mystery Underlying Everyday Things? | 60 |
Patterns for a Heroic Life | 91 |
Arthur and Arthurianism in Medievalist and QuasiMedieval Romance | 127 |
Stories of Robin Hood | 165 |
Chapter 7 Folktale and Metanarratives of Female Agency | 200 |
Stories and Motifs from the Arabian Nights | 229 |
Chapter 9 Reversions of Early Modern Classics | 253 |
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adventure Aladdin Alanna Arabian Nights argued Arthur Arthurian assumptions audience Ballantyne's behavior Beowulf Bible story biblical chapter characters children's literature Christian classical myth collection construct contemporary context contrast conventional cultural demotic depicted discourse effect elements especially evil evoked example fairies fantasy female hero feminist fiction focalization focus folktale frame function Gawain gender genie genre genric Grahame's Green Grendel Grendel's mother hence heroic hieratic historical human humanist Icarus ideological implications implicit interpretive intertextual King Leeson's Lion King literary male medieval metaethic metafictive metanarrative moral motifs Mufasa narrative narrator novel outlaws Pandora paradigm position Pratchett's pre-text Prometheus Ragnell relationship religious replicates representation retold stories reversions Robin Hood Robin of Sherwood Robinsonade role romance schema setting sexual Shakespeare's Sherwood significance Simba social society strategies structure Sutcliff sword-and-sorcery tale Tam Lin texts tion traditional stories transcendent Treasure Island values Western metaethic women