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- Publisher
- American Folklore Society
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2003 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
- ISSN
- 1535-1882
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Abstract
Christine Goldberg In the Winter 2000 issue of JAF, Kimberly J. Lau (2000) critiques the idea of the "series" as a marketing strategy, with particular regard to folktales published in volumes that represent different countries, regions, or ethnic groups. Her central example is Pantheon's line of fairy-tale books. Readers of JAF are, of course, interested in cultural criticism, particularly concerning the presentation of folklore in the media of popular culture. Some readers are also interested in a different problem involving "series" books: how published folktales can be used for teaching and for research. Librarians, as well as teachers of children and of college students, often want to find multiple examples of a single story. The purpose of this search is usually to discover how the tale has been altered and, through that, to afford students a glimpse into the workings of oral tradition. Older students as well as folktale scholars may enjoy a research project in which they compare different versions of the same tale type. Reading whole books of tales to find material for such a study is tedious and inefficient. Fortunately, Aarne-Thompson tale type numbers easily solve a great part of this problem, and motif numbers
Journal
Journal of American Folklore – American Folklore Society
Published: May 22, 2003