1. Alumna: Kati Lunina Escola Municipal del Treball (EMT)
Tutora del treball: Elisabet Rib Lpez A Comparative Approach to a
tale compiled by Alexander Afanasyev and Joseph Jacobs. Irish and
Russian Folk Tales
2. INTRODUCTION
3. INTRODUCTION
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.
5. EUROPEAN FOLKLORE
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.
9. THE FOLKTALE
10. FOLKLORISTS
11. STRUCTURALISM
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.
14. ANALYSIS
15. COMPARISON
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.