Sunday, February 24, 2008

Methods of mythness


Stories
  • Long (25+ pages): novels, epic poems
  • Short (~1-25 pages): myths, fables, short stories

Medium of fairy tales
  • Convey a basic moral lesson through actions & consequences of the characters; simple, catch, concise
  • Allow children to exert their powers of imaginative identification, sympathy, indifference, and exposes them to archetypal situations

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