-Caveat Lector-
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Sno0wl wrote:
>The very best of children's literature seems to resonate with
>"something" we already know--rather than imposing or teaching
>external principles.
The main reason being, the very best of children's literature did not
start out as children's literature...it was turned into such by the
Victorians and the Edwardians, and solidified in that genre by Disney...
But if one is lucky enough to get one's hand on a very early copy of,
say, Grimm's, one easily can see that what got termed 'fairytales' were
adaptations of earlier folktales, stories told around the fireside for
the whole village, adults included...
Those original stories contained quite a bit of sex and violence, which
got sanitized in the Victorian era, and all but excised in the 20th
century...
But they were stories which reflected the psyches of the listeners...
and dealt with matters both sacred and profane, with day-to-day life and
with matters of the spirit...and so it is no wonder that they still
'resonate' with us, as that is exactly what they were designed to do, no
matter what era they were told...the issues these stories dealt with are
issues we still deal with today...love, politics, day-to-day survival
(and the quest to raise oneself above one's station), seemingly random
events/disasters and the search for meaning in same...
And yes, these stories were a convenient way to present the moral
precepts of the dominant religion, whether one prayed to Thor or
Yahweh...
>I think one can only see this as dangerous or "evil" if one is
>entirely wedded to a religious dogma that considers the ideas
>in these stories heretical.
The irony is, the Christian church latched on to many of the pre-existing
legends and gave them a Christian veneer...others were developed later,
DURING Christian rule, and presented esoteric Christian precepts in a
guise that was palatable and understandable to the illiterate masses
(including the aristocracy, most of whom were illiterate throughout the
Medeival era...)
June
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