schools of folk‐narrative research
schools of folk‐narrative research.The different theories and schools of thought that have attempted to explain the historical development of folk narrative date back to the early collections and analyses of folk literature in the late 18th century and extend up to present‐day considerations about the nature of storytelling in modern, technological societies. In the history of folk narrative scholarship, the main prose genres have been folk tale, legend, and myth. The folk tale continues to be the most extensively studied of the prose genres. Although many theoretical perspectives have evolved directly from the study of the folk tale, they have often been applicable to other genres as well. An overview of research on folk narrative can be grouped according to four general directions of inquiry, which do not always constitute separate schools, concerning the question of origin, form, meaning, and style.
1. Precursors
The formal study of folk...[The entire page is 3407 words long]
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