Traditions and Transitions folk narrative in the contemporary world
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July 2001 The University of Melbourne, Australia
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European fairy tale tends to have a bipartite structure, which can be
represented semiotically as analogous and homologous. Nevertheless, it is a
two-tiered structure in which the weight of the story is located in the second
half. This inevitability is due to the pattern of narrative development that I
have named the ‘V-process’, descent and ascent, or death and rebirth. The first
part of the story is a fall into death; the second part corresponds to a return
from death to life.
The story can further be analysed as a dual narrative of firstly, the visible
surface story, and secondly, the invisible deep narrative. Repetition fulfils
the function of mediating these two layers. Through experiencing the
repetition, we are led into the invisible deep narrative.
This paper will examine the tale KHM 64 and will analyse the way in which the
codes of ‘tailor’ and ‘food’ construct the narrative, and how these codes are
tightly linked with German folk phenomena and ancient mythical elements.
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