After reading through the excerpt I feel like they go to far into what makes a folktale a folktale. I feel like some of these things are not supposed to be looked into to much. When you start to look into them to much, and try to make assumptions about the people from which the story originally cake from you soon lose sight of the story itself.
The terms "expressive culture" and "practical culture" just seem so wrong. Who are we as people from outside that specific culture to pass judgment on what we believe in or even categorize someone else's stories. We may all hear the same storybut that does not make the story have the same amount of significance for each person who hears it. (Definition Section, page 236).
As I was reading through I came to a part that I didn't understand. On page 239 where it reads "likewise, if there are any rank differences in a society, there is generally an over-supply of tale characters who either occupy or achieve high rank, whereas the majority of the members of the society are obviously of lower rank" I didn't quite understand what they were trying to say.
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I also didn't understand the part where he says, "likewise, if there are any rank differences in a society, there is generally an over-supply of tale characters who either occupy or achieve high rank, whereas the majority of the members of the society are obviously of lower rank"(239).i am not sure is he trying to say that some myths are told more then others that's why some myths are more famous or is he saying the richer people tell myths to poorer people and the poorer people would make some of the myths popular because they tell everyone.
ReplyDeleteHey Valentina,
ReplyDeleteI think that he goes into a lot of detail about every aspect of a myth. It gets kind of boring at times and becomes difficult to read. i agree that everyone has a different view on stories.