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本帖最后由 名字是个词儿 于 2009-12-17 19:55 编辑
12月15日 听写 TPO5 L4
Listen to part of a lecture in a literature class.
Now we can't really talk about fairy tales without first talking about folk tales, because there is a strong connection between these two Jonvus[genres 体裁], these two types of stories. In fact, many fairy tales started out as folk tales. So, what's a folk tale? How would you charactorize[characterize] them? Jeff?
Well, they are old stories, traditonal stories, they were passed down oraly[orally] within cultures from generation to generation, so they changed a lot over time, I mean every story teller or maybe every town might have had a slightly different virsion[version] of the same folk tale.
That's right, there's local difference, and that's why we say folk tales are communal 共有的. By communal, we mean they reflect the trace[traits 特性] and the concerns of a perticular[particular] community at a perticular[particular] time. So essencially[essentially] the same tale could be told in different communities, with certain aspects of the tale adapted to fit the[this] specific community. Hmmm, not the plah[plot 故事情节]...the details of what happens in the story would remain constant, that was the thread 线索 that held the tale together. But all the other elements, like the location, or charactors[characters], might be modified for each audiance.
OK, so what about fairy tales? They also are found in most cultures, but how are they different from folk tales? I guess the first question is, what is a fairy tale? And don't anyone say, "a story with a fairy in it", because we all know that very few fairy tales actually have those tiny migical creatures in them. But what else can we say about them? Mary.
Well, they seem to be a lot[less] realistic than folk tales, like they have something inprobable[improbable 未必有的] happening, a frog turning into a prince, say. Oh, there's[that's] another common element, rayalty[royalty], a prince or princess, and fairy tales all seem to take place in a location that's nowhere and everywhere at the same time.
What's the line, how do all those stories start? "Once upon a time, in a far-away land..." In the case of folk tales, each story teller would specify a paticular[particular] location and time, though the time and location would differ for different story tellers. With fairy tales, however, the location is generally unspecified, no matter who the story teller is. "That land far away". We'll come back to this point in a few minutes.
I thought that a fairy tale was just a written virsion[version] of an oral folk tale.
Well, not exactly, though that is how many fairy tales developed. For example, in the late 18th century the Green[Grimm] brothers travelled[traveled] throughout what's now Germany recording local folk tales. These were eventually published as fairy tales, but not before undergoing a process of evolution. Now, a number of things happen when an oral tale gets written down. First, the language changes, it becomes more formal, more standard. Some might say, less colorful. It's like the difference in your language depending on whether you are talking to someone or writing them a letter. Second, when an orally transported[transmitted] story is written down, and a fartated[an authoritative] virsion[version] with a recognized author is created. The communal aspect gets lost, the tale no longer belongs to the community, it belongs to the world, so to speak. Because of this, elements like place and time can no longer be taler[tailored 使适应特殊需要] to suit a perticular[particular] audiance[audience]. So they become less identifiable, more generalizable to any audiance[audience].
On the other hand, discriptions of charactors[characters] and settings can be developed more completely. In folk tales, charactors[characters] can be identified by name, but you wouldn't know anything more about them. But in fairy tales, people no longer have to remember plahs[plots], they're written down, right? So more energy can be put into other elements of the story, like charactor[character], and setting, so you get more details about the charactors[characters], about where the action takes place, what people's house[houses] were like, whether they are small cabins or grant palaces, and it's worth investing that energy, because the story, now in book form, isn't in danger of being lost, those details won't be forgotten. If a folk tale isn't repeated by each generation, it may be lost for all time. But with the[a] fairy tale, it's always there in a book, waiting to be discovered, again and again.
Another interesting difference involves the change in audiance[audience]. Who this story is aluminied[the stories are meant] for? Contray to what many people believe today, folk tales were originaly[originally] intended for adults, not for children. So why is it that fairy tales seem targeted to[toward] children nowadays? |
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