Storytelling Outline - (Revised Edition)

Author: Liu Shouhua
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book is divided into twelve chapters to briefly outline the scope and boundaries of folk tales, several common genres of folk tales and their representative works, the characteristics of the inheritance of folk tales, the multiple functions of folk tales in people's lives, the narrative art of story genres, historical evolution, as well as the collection and research of folk tales. In terms of content, it strives to clarify the basic theories of story literature and pays attention to absorbing the latest achievements in domestic and international story studies to enrich this knowledge. At the same time, it closely combines with the large-scale ongoing folk literature work in our country, introducing scientific methods for the collection and research of stories. In terms of writing, it attempts to base the concise theoretical summaries on rich and vivid factual materials to facilitate readers' thinking and self-study.