The Art Of Storytelling And Folktales
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The great art of storytelling has been around for generations
calling forth new listeners even at this present day. In everyday life,
through books, theaters, televisions, and spoken word, new and old stories
are told to a variety of people. The folktale, which has been a part of a
long oral tradi ....
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.... and the listeners to go off with
their imagination into a new world. For the listener, it is pure escapism.
The popularity of the folktale has existed so long for one main reason.
Stith Thompson , a folklorist himself, has studied reasons in which a
folktale is told. He states “Stories may differ in subject from place to
place, the conditions and purposes of taletelling may change as we move
from land to land or from century to century, and yet everywhere it
ministers to the same basic ....
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