A01=John Stephens
A01=Robyn McCallum
Aladdin Story
Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights Stories
arthurian
Author_John Stephens
Author_Robyn McCallum
Ballantyne's Coral Island
Category=DSA
Category=DSB
Category=DSY
children's cultural studies
Contemporary Realist Fictions
Coral Island
cultural transmission
Dame Ragnell
Demotic Register
epic
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Fairy Tales
gender in folklore
Genie Stories
Lamp Genie
literary adaptation analysis
Lot's Wife
Lot’s Wife
Mid Air
modern
myth reinterpretation
narrative theory
pierce
Prose Retellings
register
retelling traditional narratives in education
retellings
Retold Stories
Robin Hood
Robin Hood Stories
romance
Secret Ball
Sir GAWAIN
Squire Trelawney
Stevenson's Treasure Island
story
tamora
Toad Hall
traditional
Treasure Island
Wild Wood
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815312987
- Weight: 770g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
