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Stories
Julian Preece 
Transnational Modern Languages. A Handbook, Pages: 289 - 295
Swansea University Author:
Julian Preece
Abstract
This chapter argues that classic tales in the western tradition are transnational in origin, including many found in the Bible, Homer and canonical compilations which became foundational texts of national literatures, such as The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote or epic poems telling the...
| Published in: | Transnational Modern Languages. A Handbook |
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| ISBN: | 1800348495 |
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Liverpool
Liverpool University Press
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https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/55098/ |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59479 |
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This chapter argues that classic tales in the western tradition are transnational in origin, including many found in the Bible, Homer and canonical compilations which became foundational texts of national literatures, such as The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote or epic poems telling the deeds of Arthurian heroes. For good and ill, narrative fictions, in the form of legends and fables, but also jokes, rumours and 'fake news', jump across languages and traverse physical and man-made boundaries. Walter Benjamin may distinguish between the story-teller who stays at home and learns the stories of their place of origin and the traveller who brings back accounts of their journeys, but the stories passed on by both archetypes have come from afar. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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289 |
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295 |