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Retelling Stories, Framing Culture - Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature (Paperback)
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Retelling Stories, Framing Culture - Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature (Paperback)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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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.
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