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Alumna: Kati Lunina
Escola Municipal del Treball (EMT)
Tutora del treball: Elisabet Ribó López
A Comparative
Approach to a tale
compiled by
Alexander
Afanasyev and
Joseph Jacobs.
Irish and Russian Folk
Tales
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
FOLKLORE
We can define
folklore as a set of...
-legends -myths -jokes
-oral history -fairy tales
-folk tales -proverbs
-customs -stories
-popular beliefs -music
.. of one culture's
traditions.
Folklore covers many aspects of
culture, traditions and beliefs of a
particular society and it has often
been conflated with mythology.
EUROPEAN FOLKLORE
EUROPEAN FOLKLORISTS
●
18th
- 19th
centuries → people in Europe interested in the
study of their countries' folklore.
Johann Gottfried Herder
Grimm Brothers
Hans Christian Andersen
Charles Perrault
...
among many others
THE CELTS (Ireland) - History
The Celtic expansion.
→ From the British Isles to
what is now Turkey.
→ Fierce and courageous
warriors.
→ Ireland and Scotland
managed to pass on the Celtic
traditions because they
remained unconquered.
Celts → group of people who began to spread throughout Europe
in the 1000 BC.
THE SLAVS (Russia) - History
The Slavic expansion.
→ Central-Eastern Europe.
→ Farmers and shepherds
who lived in marshes and
forests.
Slavs → diverse group of tribal societies from the 5th
to the 10th
centuries.
THE FOLKTALE
FOLKLORISTS
STRUCTURALISM
MORPHOLOGY OF THE FOLKTALE
VERSIONS OF CINDERELLA
→ Walt Disney's Cinderella (1950) based
on Charles Perrault's Cendrillon (1697).
→ Grimm brothers' Aschenputtel (1812).
→ Ancient Egypt's Rhodopis (1st
century BC).
→ Russian Alexander Afanasyev's
The Golden Slipper.
→ Irish Joseph Jacob's
Fair, Brown and Trembling.
ANALYSIS
COMPARISON
CONCLUSIONS OF THE COMPARISON
→ Similar plot.
→The same type of characters.
→ Share mainly the same functions = have the same structure.
→ Differences
that make them
characteristic
from the country
they come from.
CONCLUSIONS
→ In the 19th
century many European scholars worked on
folklore = Nationalism.
→ Similar folk tales can be found in countries as far apart
as Russia and Ireland.
→ European folk tales have similar traits no matter how far
apart they may come from.
THE END

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Russian and Irish folk tales

  • 1. Alumna: Kati Lunina Escola Municipal del Treball (EMT) Tutora del treball: Elisabet Ribó López A Comparative Approach to a tale compiled by Alexander Afanasyev and Joseph Jacobs. Irish and Russian Folk Tales
  • 4. FOLKLORE We can define folklore as a set of... -legends -myths -jokes -oral history -fairy tales -folk tales -proverbs -customs -stories -popular beliefs -music .. of one culture's traditions. Folklore covers many aspects of culture, traditions and beliefs of a particular society and it has often been conflated with mythology.
  • 6. EUROPEAN FOLKLORISTS ● 18th - 19th centuries → people in Europe interested in the study of their countries' folklore. Johann Gottfried Herder Grimm Brothers Hans Christian Andersen Charles Perrault ... among many others
  • 7. THE CELTS (Ireland) - History The Celtic expansion. → From the British Isles to what is now Turkey. → Fierce and courageous warriors. → Ireland and Scotland managed to pass on the Celtic traditions because they remained unconquered. Celts → group of people who began to spread throughout Europe in the 1000 BC.
  • 8. THE SLAVS (Russia) - History The Slavic expansion. → Central-Eastern Europe. → Farmers and shepherds who lived in marshes and forests. Slavs → diverse group of tribal societies from the 5th to the 10th centuries.
  • 12. MORPHOLOGY OF THE FOLKTALE
  • 13. VERSIONS OF CINDERELLA → Walt Disney's Cinderella (1950) based on Charles Perrault's Cendrillon (1697). → Grimm brothers' Aschenputtel (1812). → Ancient Egypt's Rhodopis (1st century BC). → Russian Alexander Afanasyev's The Golden Slipper. → Irish Joseph Jacob's Fair, Brown and Trembling.
  • 16. CONCLUSIONS OF THE COMPARISON → Similar plot. →The same type of characters. → Share mainly the same functions = have the same structure. → Differences that make them characteristic from the country they come from.
  • 17. CONCLUSIONS → In the 19th century many European scholars worked on folklore = Nationalism. → Similar folk tales can be found in countries as far apart as Russia and Ireland. → European folk tales have similar traits no matter how far apart they may come from.